Re: Install from USB flash drive

2011-07-21 Thread Robert Millan
2011/7/21 Thomas Schmitt scdbac...@gmx.net: So it would be mainly about asking debian-cd to produce a MBR boot image and to tell genisomage or xorriso to include it (by option -G). The MBR is just one piece of the boot chain, you need everything else to be in place for this to work. This

Re: Install from USB flash drive

2011-07-21 Thread Robert Millan
2011/7/21 David Balažic xerc...@gmail.com: That worked, thanks. The docs at http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/kfreebsd-amd64/ch04s03.html.en should be updated to reflect that mini.iso is the only(?) way to boot from USB stick for kbsd64. I know. Unfortunately we haven't managed to

Re: Install from USB flash drive

2011-07-21 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, So it would be mainly about asking debian-cd to produce a MBR boot image and to tell genisomage or xorriso to include it (by option -G). The MBR is just one piece of the boot chain, you need everything else to be in place for this to work. This includes (but is not limited to)

Re: Install from USB flash drive

2011-07-21 Thread David Balažic
On 21 July 2011 20:23, Robert Millan r...@debian.org wrote: 2011/7/21 David Balažic xerc...@gmail.com: That worked, thanks. The docs at http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/kfreebsd-amd64/ch04s03.html.en should be updated to reflect that mini.iso is the only(?) way to boot from USB stick

Install from USB flash drive

2011-07-20 Thread David Balažic
Hi! Is booting the installer from am USB flash drive (key) supported for kbsd amd64? First I tried to cat the kbsd-amd64 netinst iso for the drive, which did not boot, then I noticed this method is not listed at the docs (http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/kfreebsd-amd64/ch04s03.html.en)

Re: Install from USB flash drive

2011-07-20 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
David Balažic xerc...@gmail.com writes: So, is there a way to boot the kbsd install from USB key? The PC has no optical drives. Or is netboot a working alternative? Good question. I personally just ran netinstall under QEMU and copied the resulting image to the target system. -Timo -- To