I've booted off of CF before...and am doing so because the arrays are >2TB, and the BIOS won't boot from it. I just made a boot floppy, then DD'd it to the CF card. If your CF card is >640 (or 700) MB, you could do the same (DD from the CD to CF).
Hope that helps. --Brian On 11/29/05, tsuraan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been using a custom bootable CD for a while to install a > customized build of FreeBSD on servers, but now I have a unit that has > neither a CD-ROM drive nor any molex connectors at all. It does have > a pair of compact flash drives though. So, what I'd like to do is > transfer the data from my bootable CDs to a compact flash card, so I > can install off that instead. What I've tried so far is set up a new > disklabel on the drive (actually, on a file initialized with mdconfig) > that has its -b set to the CDs /boot/boot, and I've copied the > contents of the CD to the cf card. This results in a card that is > bootable, but the boot loader says the card is not ufs (it is), and it > can't find the kernel. The actual commands I'm using (from memory) > are: > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=mydrive bs=1m count=100 > # mdconfig -a -t vnode -f cd.iso -u 0 > # mount -t cd9660 /dev/md0 /cdrom > > # mdconfig -a -t vnode -f mydrive -u 1 > # bsdlabel -w -B -b /cdrom/boot/boot md1 > # newfs /dev/md1 > # mount /dev/md1 /mnt > # cp -r /cdrom/* /mnt/ > > # umount /mnt > # umount /cdrom > # mdconfig -d -u 1 > # mdconfig -d -u 0 > > # dd if=mydrive of=/dev/ad2 > > So, has anyone done this, and actually had it work? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > -- _-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_-=-_ Brian McCann Systems & Network Administrator, K12USA "I don't have to take this abuse from you -- I've got hundreds of people waiting to abuse me." -- Bill Murray, "Ghostbusters" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"