freeBSD install

I have a sony vaio fs742/w running windows XP is this freeBSD a good candidate for my laptop and if it is, can i have someone load for me? I'd be more apt to trying on my home computer first, its an older model HP. thanks, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ fre

Freebsd install

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am currently trying to install freebsd 6.0 and the problem is that freebsd will not see my windows or netbsd side at all. All it See's is the whole disk and nothing else. I would like to install freebsd on the netbsd side but I do want to lost my w

FreeBSD Install

I am new to UNIX, and would like to download FreeBSD to familiarize myself with UNIX commands and the UNIX environment. I would like something fairly easy to install and maintain. I do not want to replace Windows, but would like to switch between Windows and FreeBSD. Is it possible

FreeBSD Install -- FDISK

Hi,   I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.6 on a Pentium 133 with a Western Digital 40 GB Hard Drive (WD400BB).  The BIOS and everywhere else see's it as a 40 GB drive but when I get into FreeBSD's FDISK part it thinks it's a 2 GB drive.    I hooked up an 8 GB and FreeBSD thinks THAT is an 8 GB

FreeBSD Install question

I have an older laptop that doesn't have a bootable CD-ROM. The bay either holds a CD Module or a Floppy module so I can't boot off the floppies and install from the CD-ROM. I have installed a small DOS partition and can access my FreeBSD CD-ROM, is there any way to invoke the install from within

FreeBSD Install failure

Folks I have been trying to install FreeBSD 5.0 onto a P4 2.8 with two 75 gig hard drives, one has WINXP on it and the other has nothing. It also has a 48 speed cdrw in it, I have gone into cmos and turned it down to dma33, I have tried using theset hw.ata.ata_dma="1" and hw.ata.atapi_dma="1" a

Re: FreeBSd install

> > Hey I Decided To Get your Unix Based OS Because I need More of a Challeng > I Do Have Two Questions, First Can I install FreeBSD without using Partition > magic Yes. But, it depends on how you want to do the install. IF FreeBSD will be the only operating system on that particular machine

pxegrub + FreeBSD install

Hi All, I am attempting to build FreeBSD 8.x-RELEASE over the network via PXE. I chain pxegrub to pxelinux and load the FreeBSD kernel and mfsroot through pxegrub with the following: menuentry "freebsd-x86_64" { kfreebsd /boot/kernel/kernel kfreebsd_loadenv /boot/device.hints kfreebsd_m

FreeBSD Install Problem

Hello, I have a problem installing FreeBSD 9.0 Releaseon my Lenovo Thinkpad R61i laptop (4GB RAM, 160GB HDD, 32-bit). It doesn't matter if I tried installing it from the CD or the DVD, I still have the same problem. I even tried re-downloading and re-burning a new CD or DVD, and I'm still unabl

FreeBSD install Error

Hi folks, I'm experiencing a problem when I try to install FreeBSD on a Virtual Server using KVM, The first part of the installation was fine but after setting all the option (I use a custom installation of FreeBSD) the installation encounter an error : "Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 byt

Re: freeBSD install

On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Charles wrote: I have a sony vaio fs742/w running windows XP is this freeBSD a good candidate for my laptop and if it is, can i have someone load for me? I'd be more apt to trying on my home computer first, its an older model HP. If you are completely new to FreeBSD, you

Re: Freebsd install

On 11/7/05, Aubrey{Al} Dunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am currently trying to install freebsd 6.0 and the problem is that > freebsd will not see my windows or netbsd side at all. All it See's > is the whole disk and nothing else. I would like to install freebsd > on the netbsd side but I do w

unattended FreeBSD install

Hello, I've read a howto on creating your own FreeBSD isos located at: http://romana.now.ie/writing/customfreebsdiso.html and i'd like to combine this with an unattended file install.cfg i believe it is. My goal is to go to a box, boot it from CD, then walk away, come back, and the OS includin

Re: freeBSD install

> > I have a sony vaio fs742/w running windows XP is this freeBSD a good > candidate for my laptop and if it is, can i have someone load for me? > I'd be more apt to trying on my home computer first, its an older model HP. I have not used that particular model, but have used FreeBSD on a num

Re: FreeBSD Install

On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 14:28:47 -0400 "Edward and Nancy Powers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I am new to UNIX, and would like to download FreeBSD to familiarize >myself with UNIX commands and the UNIX environment. I would like >something fairly easy to install and maintain. I do not

Re: FreeBSD Install

On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 02:28:47PM -0400, Edward and Nancy Powers wrote: > > I am new to UNIX, and would like to download FreeBSD to familiarize > myself with UNIX commands and the UNIX environment. I would like > something fairly easy to install and maintain. I do not want to > replac

Re: FreeBSD Install

On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 02:28:47PM -0400, Edward and Nancy Powers wrote: > > I am new to UNIX, and would like to download FreeBSD to familiarize > myself with UNIX commands and the UNIX environment. I would like > something fairly easy to install and maintain. I do not want to > replac

Re: FreeBSD Install -- FDISK

Jeff Feller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.6 on a Pentium 133 > with a Western Digital 40 GB Hard Drive (WD400BB). > The BIOS and everywhere else see's it as a 40 GB > drive but when I get into FreeBSD's FDISK part it > thinks it's a 2 GB drive. S

Re: FreeBSD Install -- FDISK

On Monday 15 July 2002 07:11 pm, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >Jeff Feller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.6 on a Pentium 133 >> with a Western Digital 40 GB Hard Drive (WD400BB). >> The BIOS and everywhere else see's it as a 40 GB >> drive but when I

Re: FreeBSD Install -- FDISK

On Monday 15 July 2002 06:57 pm, Jeff Feller wrote: | I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.6 on a Pentium 133 with a Western Digital | 40 GB Hard Drive (WD400BB). The BIOS and everywhere else see's it as a 40 | GB drive but when I get into FreeBSD's FDISK part it thinks it's a 2 GB | drive. | | I hook

Re: FreeBSD Install -- FDISK

rk. Anish Mistry [EMAIL PROTECTED] AM Productions http://am-productions.yi.org/ - Original Message - From: "Jeff Feller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Anish Mistry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 11:17 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD Install -- FDISK

Re: FreeBSD Install question

I haven't done FreeBSD installs on a laptop before, but you may be able to use kern.flp and mfsroot.flp to boot the installer and do a network install if you have a supported NIC card. Good luck, - Mike > I have an older laptop that doesn't have a bootable CD-ROM. The bay > either holds a CD M

Re: FreeBSD Install question

What version of FreeBSD is this for? Can you boot the kern.flp floppy? Does this machine have a network card? If so what kind? Regards, David Yeske > I have an older laptop that doesn't have a bootable CD-ROM. The bay > either holds a CD Module or a Floppy module so I can't boot off the > fl

[dcitconsult@earthlink.net: freebsd install]

[message forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, freebsd-questions is the right mailing list for this sort of questions, freebsd-doc is only for documentation issues etc. About your question, we need more informations to help you. Marc --- Begin Message --- "Probing devices, please wait (this can

Re: FreeBSD Install failure

On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 04:37:47PM -0700, John Cessor wrote: > Folks > I have been trying to install FreeBSD 5.0 onto a P4 2.8 with two As I suggested to the other gentleman with a similar problem, try 5.1 (newer release, hundreds of bugfixes, etc). Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: pxegrub + FreeBSD install

I was able to figure out how to pass the variables to the FreeBSD mfsroot. I did so by modifying the grub.cfg file like the below: menuentry "freebsd82-x86_64" { kfreebsd /boot/kernel/kernel kfreebsd_loadenv /boot/device.hints kfreebsd_module /boot/mfsroot.gz type=mfs_root set kFreeBS

Re: FreeBSD Install Problem

On 09/07/12 23:10, Chris Neudorf wrote: An installation step has been aborted. Would you like to restart the installation or exit the installer? --- [ Restart ] [ Exit ]

RE: FreeBSD Install Problem

> -Original Message- > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Chris Neudorf > Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 2:10 PM > To: questi...@freebsd.org > Subject: FreeBSD Install Problem > > Hell

RE: FreeBSD Install Problem

To: 'Chris Neudorf'; questi...@freebsd.org Subject: RE: FreeBSD Install Problem > -Original Message- > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Chris Neudorf > Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 2:10 PM >

Re: FreeBSD Install Problem

(or vice versa). > > -Original Message- > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of dte...@freebsd.org > Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 6:20 PM > To: 'Chris Neudorf'; questi...@freebsd.org > Sub

Re: FreeBSD install Error

Georghy a écrit : Hi folks, I'm experiencing a problem when I try to install FreeBSD on a Virtual Server using KVM, The first part of the installation was fine but after setting all the option (I use a custom installation of FreeBSD) the installation encounter an error : "Write failure on tran

Re: unattended FreeBSD install

The trick about make release(7) is that it installs your native /usr/obj into /usr/release_chroot or wherever and begins a fresh make buildworld in it's chroot and doesn't honor or systems' make.conf(5). Good for integrating source patches Bad for pruning out subsystems / profiling. ~BAS On Mon,

IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

Server: IBM X3850 (88633SM) CPU X 4: 40K2522 HDD X 6: 40K1051 IBM ServeRAID 8i: 39R8729 We are attempting to install FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE onto this machine and are running into a problem getting the operating system to recognise the RAID controller. As a result not finding any disks when it comes t

IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

Server: IBM X3850 (88633SM) CPU X 4: 40K2522 HDD X 6: 40K1051 IBM ServeRAID 8i: 39R8729 We are attempting to install FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE onto this machine and are running into a problem getting the operating system to recognise the RAID controller. As a result not finding any disks when it comes t

repear a FreeBSD install

ion at all), but apparently it got far enough to break the FreeBSD install. Any tips, hints, and suggestions about how exactly to go about fixing the FreeBSD install (without overwriting the home partition and losing the installed system configuration to minimize time lost getting things back to "

freebsd install from floppy

Dears, I need to install Freebsd 8.0 using floppy and then ftp, but there are no floppy images in ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.0-RELEASE/floppies/mentioned in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books

bsd.rd for FreeBSD install

method to installation? Thanks! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/bsd.rd-for-FreeBSD-install-tp22292723p22292723.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

sandisk sd 256MB freebsd install

Greetings: My goal is to make a minimal install of FBSD on a 256 MB sandisk memory card. I have a usb card reader and I was wondering if there exists any instructions on how to perform the install out on the web. I tried googling for it and found nothing useful. Any thoughts, Brian __

New Freebsd Install Guide Available

accessed the Install guide you would have see that it is available to everyone for download and viewing on their own PC. It is public domain and the FreeBSD-Doc group can incorporate it into the handbook or make it a separate install guide for beginners. The FreeBSD Install Guide is mirrored at the

Re[2]: FreeBSD Install question

Tuesday, October 22, 2002, 12:56:29 AM, you wrote: > I haven't done FreeBSD installs on a laptop before, but you may be able to > use kern.flp and mfsroot.flp to boot the installer and do a network > install if you have a supported NIC card. > Good luck, > - Mike >> I have an older laptop t

FreeBSD install corrupts neighboring partitions

I'm attempting to install FreeBSD 4.8 on a system which will boot it and also Windows 2000 Server. I've done this with two multiboot utilities: the simple boot manager that comes with FreeBSD and V Communications' System Commander. In both cases, I have found that when I install FreeBSD it corr

Not booting after freebsd install

Hi, i have an acer 5745 which had ubuntu running not booting after an attempted freebsd install .i understand that i might have wiped by choosing auto partition :-( and had not written mbr so that we could manage all from grub .now the laptop is stuck at bios splash screen.it refuses to go even

Re: freebsd install from floppy

At 1:28 PM -0500 3/6/10, Chuck Swiger wrote: >While I think floppy drives are still useful for BIOS updates and the >like, it's not just Apple that isn't selling machines with floppy >drives any more. Go to HP or Dell and try to buy a new machine with a >floppy drive-- they don't sell them anymor

Re: freebsd install from floppy

On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 13:58:07 -0800, Walt Pawley wrote: > At 1:28 PM -0500 3/6/10, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > >While I think floppy drives are still useful for BIOS updates and the > >like, it's not just Apple that isn't selling machines with floppy > >drives any more. Go to HP or Dell and try to buy

freebsd install on an i386

I have downloaded the 6.1rc1 iso. I dont mind downloading the release candidate compared to the mainstream because i have been using linux for about 4 months and know my way around. I have to do the following, 1) install freebsd(on a UFS file system) and dual boot it with windows XP

Re: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

At 07:07 AM 4/18/2007, Murray Taylor wrote: Server: IBM X3850 (88633SM) CPU X 4: 40K2522 HDD X 6: 40K1051 IBM ServeRAID 8i: 39R8729 We are attempting to install FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE onto this machine and are running into a problem getting the operating system to recognise the RAID controller. As

IBM / FreeBSD Install problem - more

OK -- at present I cannot get a 6.2 install disk to get anywhere further. Trying FreeSBIE 2.0.1 (aka 6.2) I can get a boot with set hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 set acpi_load=NO boot -v However it doesnt find the bge card nor has it found an fxp card we have tried, so I cant get to dmesg output off

RE: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

From: Derek Ragona [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 18 April 2007 11:34 PM To: Murray Taylor; FreeBSD Mailing List Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem At 07

Re: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 10:14:13AM +1000, Murray Taylor wrote: > Server: IBM X3850 (88633SM) > CPU X 4: 40K2522 > HDD X 6: 40K1051 > IBM ServeRAID 8i: 39R8729 > > We are attempting to install FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE onto this machine and > are running into a problem getting the operating system to re

Re: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

"Murray Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We are attempting to install FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE onto this machine and > are running into a problem getting the operating system to recognise the > RAID controller. As a result not finding any disks when it comes to > installing the O/S. > > We have att

Re: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

> > If you can either install without ACPI, or remove two of the CPUs > during installation, this should be fairly easy to fix: change the > definition of NLAPICS in /usr/src/sys/{amd64,i386}/acpica/madt.c and > rebuild your kernel, then boot with ACPI enabled and report back to > us. > > DES

Re: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

Mark Tinguely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I suggested that in email too, but looking closer, I think the MAXCPU > needs to be increased because the cpu number uses the apic_id. Or could > that be changed with a logical CPU to APIC ID lookup? > > Isn't the APIC IDs programmable? not that I am sugg

RE: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

CTED] > Subject: Re: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 10:14:13AM +1000, Murray Taylor wrote: > > > Server: IBM X3850 (88633SM) > > CPU X 4: 40K2522 > > HDD X 6: 40K1051 > > IBM ServeRAID 8i: 39R8729 > > > > We are attempting

RE: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

hese lists into the red book! mjt > -Original Message- > From: Mark Tinguely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 20 April 2007 3:37 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Murray Taylor > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: IBM / FreeBSD Instal

Re: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

On Thursday 19 April 2007 03:11:32 pm Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Mark Tinguely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I suggested that in email too, but looking closer, I think the MAXCPU > > needs to be increased because the cpu number uses the apic_id. Or could > > that be changed with a logical CPU t

Re: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

On Monday 23 April 2007 02:51:19 pm Mark Tinguely wrote: > > > John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > > > > APIC IDs are not programmable (well, they are on I/O APICs, but not local=20 > > APICs). However, I am working on patches to support all valid APIC IDs for= > > =20 > > both mptabl

Re: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

> John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > > APIC IDs are not programmable (well, they are on I/O APICs, but not local=20 > APICs). However, I am working on patches to support all valid APIC IDs for= > =20 > both mptable and MADT. Bumping up NLAPICS as a temporary workaround should= > =20

Re: repear a FreeBSD install

ize a swap partition at all), but apparently it got far enough to break the FreeBSD install. Any tips, hints, and suggestions about how exactly to go about fixing the FreeBSD install (without overwriting the home partition and losing the installed system configuration to minimize time lost getting t

Re: repear a FreeBSD install

ize a swap partition at all), but apparently it got far enough to break the FreeBSD install. Any tips, hints, and suggestions about how exactly to go about fixing the FreeBSD install (without overwriting the home partition and losing the installed system configuration to minimize time lost getting t

Re: repair a FreeBSD install

re install didn't get very far (the > >installer is less than helpful -- wouldn't recognize a swap partition at > >all), but apparently it got far enough to break the FreeBSD install. > > > >Any tips, hints, and suggestions about how exactly to go about fixing > &g

Re: repear a FreeBSD install

re install didn't get very far (the > >installer is less than helpful -- wouldn't recognize a swap partition at > >all), but apparently it got far enough to break the FreeBSD install. > > > >Any tips, hints, and suggestions about how exactly to go about fixing > &g

Re: repear a FreeBSD install

didn't get very far (the installer is less than helpful -- wouldn't recognize a swap partition at all), but apparently it got far enough to break the FreeBSD install. What exactly is broken in the FBSD installation? Just won't find enough bootstrap stuff to boot? Shortly af

Re: repair a FreeBSD install

o, already >>> present on the system). The Slackware install didn't get very far (the >>> installer is less than helpful -- wouldn't recognize a swap partition at >>> all), but apparently it got far enough to break the FreeBSD install. >>> >>> An

Re: repair a FreeBSD install

On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 11:19:39PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > You can use the grub bootloader to load freebsd (assuming that nothing > is damaged in the freebsd slice itself, and I believe it is intact in > your case) > It's been some time since I've done this myself (I am no longer dual > boo

Re: repair a FreeBSD install

Chad Perrin wrote: > On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 11:19:39PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > >> You can use the grub bootloader to load freebsd (assuming that nothing >> is damaged in the freebsd slice itself, and I believe it is intact in >> your case) >> It's been some time since I've done this mys

Re: repair a FreeBSD install

Manolis Kiagias wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 11:19:39PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: You can use the grub bootloader to load freebsd (assuming that nothing is damaged in the freebsd slice itself, and I believe it is intact in your case) It's been some time since

Re: repear a FreeBSD install

he > installer is less than helpful -- wouldn't recognize a swap partition at > all), but apparently it got far enough to break the FreeBSD install. > > Any tips, hints, and suggestions about how exactly to go about fixing > the FreeBSD install (without overwriting the home pa

Re: repair a FreeBSD install

On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 02:56:08PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 11:19:39PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > > You can use the grub bootloader to load freebsd (assuming that nothing > > is damaged in the freebsd slice itself, and I believe it is intact in > > your case) > > It

Re: repair a FreeBSD install

lready > > present on the system). The Slackware install didn't get very far (the > > installer is less than helpful -- wouldn't recognize a swap partition at > > all), but apparently it got far enough to break the FreeBSD install. > > > > Any tips, hints, an

freebsd install on poweredge 2900

ration one virtual drive is 146gb the other one is 280gb when i finally get to partioning menu during the FreeBSD install i see two volumes, problem is both of them are showing up as 146GB. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.f

Re: freebsd install from floppy

On 3 March 2010 07:33, Piotr Lukawski wrote: > Dears, > I need to install Freebsd 8.0 using floppy and then ftp, but there are no > floppy images in > ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.0-RELEASE/floppies/mention

Re: freebsd install from floppy

On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 01:33:52PM +0100, Piotr Lukawski wrote: > Dears, > I need to install Freebsd 8.0 using floppy and then ftp, but there are no > floppy images in > +ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.0-RELEASE/floppies/

Re: freebsd install from floppy

Illoai, Thanks a lot! Your solution works - system is up and running now :-) However, in such a case I really cannot understand why nobody can change just one parameter and put the file in a proper place in ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.0-RELEASE/floppies/

Re: freebsd install from floppy

On 5 March 2010 13:51, Piotr Lukawski wrote: > On 4 March 2010 05:51, ill...@gmail.com wrote: >> On 3 March 2010 07:33, Piotr Lukawski wrote: >> > Dears, >> > I need to install Freebsd 8.0 using floppy and then ftp, but there are >> > no >> > floppy images . . . >> > Could you please produce ins

Re: freebsd install from floppy

Piotr Lukawski wrote: > ... I really cannot understand why nobody can change > just one parameter and put the file in a proper place in > ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.0-RELEASE/floppies/ I seem to remember something about the floppy images being dropped because few current (o

Re: freebsd install from floppy

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/03/2010 09:26:22, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > I seem to remember something about the floppy images being dropped > because few current (or even recent) systems have a floppy drive at > all, much less a bootable one. Yeah, but the floppy disk

Re: freebsd install from floppy

In many situations, especially for and old or non standard equipment floppies are the best or even the only solution. Actually if I haven't found the solution to use floppy to install FreeBSD, I would be forced to use another system eg. OpenBSD instead, even if I prefer FreeBSD. The decision to mak

Re: freebsd install from floppy

On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 12:24:30 +0100, Piotr Lukawski wrote: > In many situations, especially for and old or non standard equipment > floppies are the best or even the only solution. > [...] > The decision to make floppies obsolete is very bad, because it is still > needed by many people. Sometimes

Re: freebsd install from floppy

> Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:54:38 + > From: Matthew Seaman > Subject: Re: freebsd install from floppy > To: per...@pluto.rain.com > Cc: questi...@freebsd.org, > plukaw...@gmail.com > Message-ID: <4b92265e.5030...@infracaninophile.co.uk> > Content-T

Re: freebsd install from floppy

On Mar 6, 2010, at 12:44 PM, James Phillips wrote: Correction: Apple stopped selling computers with floppy drives about 10 years ago. The floppy drive is not obsolete because there is still no viable replacement that has the same (or better) functionality. While I think floppy drives are s

doing a minimal FreeBSD install

I'm looking to install only the bare essentials to FreeBSD and then install each program piece-by-piece afterwards. To do this, do I just need the first FreeBSD 6 ISO? Or can I get away with just the boot CD ISO and then install each port one-by-one? (Basically, I just wanna build a Nagios serve

unateended FreeBSD install + zfs + gpt

Hi! I've modified mfsBSD scripts http://people.freebsd.org/~mm/mfsbsd/ to make unattended installer for FreeBSD 8.0-RC1 on GPT ZFS root. I've successfully installed 3 different servers with that set of scrips. Modified scrips can be downloaded from http://unixdom.com/kickbsd/ Modified files are

Re: bsd.rd for FreeBSD install

new_guy wrote: Hi, We normally use OpenBSD, but would like to try FreeBSD on a test system. Usually, when updating from one OpenBSD release to another, we do so by downloading the latest bsd.rd and booting from that to complete the install. Our machines have no optical drives. Does FreeBSD have

Re: bsd.rd for FreeBSD install

d-for-FreeBSD-install-tp22292723p22293310.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any ma

Re: bsd.rd for FreeBSD install

tall wants to be on some media other than where it will be installed. That is mostly because you build your disk filesystem as part of the installation. jerry > > Thanks! > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/bsd.rd-for-FreeBSD-install-tp22292723p22292723

Re: bsd.rd for FreeBSD install

new_guy wrote: You misunderstand. I want to install FreeBSD from a ramdisk image (bsd.rd). Is that possible? It's basically a small kernel that boots the machine, formats the hard drive, setups root and installs the operating system over ftp. If that's what you want I definitely misunderstood.

Re: bsd.rd for FreeBSD install'

On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 06:19:57PM +, Ricardo Jesus wrote: > new_guy wrote: > >You misunderstand. I want to install FreeBSD from a ramdisk image (bsd.rd). > >Is that possible? It's basically a small kernel that boots the machine, > >formats the hard drive, setups root and installs the operatin

Re: bsd.rd for FreeBSD install

I think some people have done it from network and second Hard drive boots as well as floppy and CD boots. jerry > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/bsd.rd-for-FreeBSD-install-tp22292723p22293310.html > Sent from the freebsd-questions

Re: bsd.rd for FreeBSD install

. I think some people have done it from network and second Hard drive boots as well as floppy and CD boots. jerry -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/bsd.rd-for-FreeBSD-install-tp22292723p22293310.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabbl

Re: bsd.rd for FreeBSD install

On Monday 02 March 2009 08:36:39 new_guy wrote: > We normally use OpenBSD, but would like to try FreeBSD on a test system. > Usually, when updating from one OpenBSD release to another, we do so by > downloading the latest bsd.rd and booting from that to complete the > install. Our machines have no

Re: bsd.rd for FreeBSD install

e > install. > Our machines have no optical drives. Does FreeBSD have a similar method to > installation? > > Thanks! > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/bsd.rd-for-FreeBSD-install-tp22292723p22292723.html > Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing li

Re: bsd.rd for FreeBSD install

> If the machines have floppies, there are downloadable floppy > images. Is anyone aware of a simple method to construct a bootable zip-drive image from the floppy images and/or bootonly.iso? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fr

Re: bsd.rd for FreeBSD install

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:13 AM, wrote: > > If the machines have floppies, there are downloadable floppy > > images. > > Is anyone aware of a simple method to construct a bootable > zip-drive image from the floppy images and/or bootonly.iso? problem is to create the zip disk bootable. Never

Re: sandisk sd 256MB freebsd install

> Greetings: > > My goal is to make a minimal install of FBSD on a 256 MB sandisk > memory card. I have a usb card reader and I was wondering if there > exists any instructions on how to perform the install out on the web. > I tried googling for it and found nothing useful. I've performed this:

Re: sandisk sd 256MB freebsd install

Look at PHK's nanoBSD. Under -current ( or 5.x???) src/tools/tools/nanobsd tomdean ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: sandisk sd 256MB freebsd install

I checked, nanobsd is only in -current. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/tools/tools/nanobsd/ tomdean ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROT

Re: sandisk sd 256MB freebsd install

Brian Henning wrote: Greetings: My goal is to make a minimal install of FBSD on a 256 MB sandisk memory card. I have a usb card reader and I was wondering if there exists any instructions on how to perform the install out on the web. I tried googling for it and found nothing useful. Any thoughts

Re: sandisk sd 256MB freebsd install

google for miniBSD first return is neon1.net/misc/minibsd.html We are using this to put a FreeBSD installation onto 14MB of a 32MB CF card. mjt On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 07:59, jason wrote: > Brian Henning wrote: > > >Greetings: > > > >My goal is to make a minimal install of FBSD on a 256 MB sa

Re: sandisk sd 256MB freebsd install

On Sep 5, 2004, at 4:59 PM, jason wrote: Checking http://www.simpletech.com/flash/flash_prox.php will show reliability of write/erase endurance at 100,000 cycles. For data storage and just reading 1s and 0s flash lasts a very long time. Just don't write to them as a swap file or you could kill

Re: New Freebsd Install Guide Available

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-04-03, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribbled these curious markings: > YES there is something major wrong with the official handbook. The > majority of the content is written like the reader already has good > understanding of how FreeBSD works. It is

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