On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 09:50:12AM +1100, Joshua Cummings wrote: > On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 23:13 +0100, Luca Favatella wrote: > > Hi. > > > > Is there a way to use d-i to install kfreebsd-i386 from usb? > > This could be useful to install kfreebsd-i386 (using d-i) on machines > > without cd/dvd drive (e.g. eeepc laptop). > > > > I used the d-i image to install kfreebsd-i386 on my eeepc 701 a couple > of days ago. I basically extracted the CD contents and installed GRUB to > the USB stick. Works great.
Hackish solution. Thanks. > Only thing I had to do is load the 'ae' > ethernet driver manually from boot with 'kfreebsd_module_elf', otherwise > the installer wouldn't detect any interfaces. Ok. > I'm hoping to put together an eeepc-specific image with everything > supported/working out of the box (the Atheros wifi will mean a custom > kernel with non-free bits though) in the same style as the existing > Linux image. Instead of an eeepc-specific image, perhaps you could consider helping in using 8.0 kernel in d-i. AFAIK Atheros driver is free in 8.0. Thanks, Luca Favatella -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
