Re: Installation from USB pen

2009-05-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Fri, 22 May 2009, Randy Bush wrote: i succeeded with putting 8-current snap on a pen and booting. but i can not figure out how to tell it to use the pen drive for system image loads. do i have to back off to 7 and then upgrade forward after install? I don't believe you can install from

Re: Installation from USB pen

2009-05-21 Thread Randy Bush
i succeeded with putting 8-current snap on a pen and booting. but i can not figure out how to tell it to use the pen drive for system image loads. do i have to back off to 7 and then upgrade forward after install? rndy ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org

Re: Installation from USB pen

2009-05-21 Thread Stanislav Sedov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 21 May 2009 14:12:00 -0700 Randy Bush ra...@psg.com mentioned: i succeeded with putting 8-current snap on a pen and booting. but i can not figure out how to tell it to use the pen drive for system image loads. What do you mean by

Re: Installation from USB pen

2009-05-21 Thread Randy Bush
i succeeded with putting 8-current snap on a pen and booting. but i can not figure out how to tell it to use the pen drive for system image loads. What do you mean by system image loads? Does it load kernel succesfully but cannot find root filesystem? sorry. no. it wants the cd or ftp or

Re: Installation from USB pen

2006-04-28 Thread Dario Freni
Brooks Davis ha scritto: On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 02:58:46AM +0100, Dario Freni wrote: Hi everybody, attached a tiny script to convert a FreeBSD install iso image to a binary ufs image ready to be flashed e.g. on an USB pendrive. The size of the ufs image is calculated from the iso one. The

Re: Installation from USB pen

2006-04-28 Thread Brooks Davis
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 02:38:41AM +0200, Dario Freni wrote: Brooks Davis ha scritto: On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 02:58:46AM +0100, Dario Freni wrote: Hi everybody, attached a tiny script to convert a FreeBSD install iso image to a binary ufs image ready to be flashed e.g. on an USB pendrive.

Re: Installation from USB pen

2006-03-23 Thread Dario Freni
Brooks Davis wrote: One minor nit, you might want to put a check that the user is root at the top of the script since that is a requirement. Nice hint, I'll add it. P.S.: beer-ware license Are you going to be at BSDCan. :) No funds for that. Hope to see you here in Milan at EuroBSDCon.

Re: Installation from USB pen

2006-03-22 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 02:58:46AM +0100, Dario Freni wrote: Hi everybody, attached a tiny script to convert a FreeBSD install iso image to a binary ufs image ready to be flashed e.g. on an USB pendrive. The size of the ufs image is calculated from the iso one. The usage for the script is

Installation from USB pen

2006-03-21 Thread Dario Freni
Hi everybody, attached a tiny script to convert a FreeBSD install iso image to a binary ufs image ready to be flashed e.g. on an USB pendrive. The size of the ufs image is calculated from the iso one. The usage for the script is quite simple: ./fbsd-install-iso2img.sh iso-path img-path Once