On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 2:26 PM, David Wolfskill <da...@catwhisker.org>wrote:
> While the exercise was ultimately successful, I needed to make use of > additional hardware (including a second FreeBSD machine -- my laptop) to > complete it. Had I been trying to install with just the target machine > and the USB drive (memstick), as far as I can tell, I would have ended > up with a brick. > I can confirm this, and I *did* end up with a brick (went back and did it again with the 9.0-R installer to get a working system). Worse, it managed to damage the EFI partition and I'm still getting fallout from that I think. -- brandon s allbery allber...@gmail.com wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
