On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 07:43:36PM -0500, Paul Halliday wrote:
I have two drives in my pc164. What do i need to put on the second drive
in order to use it as the installation media? I have tried dd'ing the
floppy images to the second hard drive but this doesnt work. Any pointers?
Generally you need to copy the 'release' area from one of the FTP
sites -- so, for 4.9-RELEASE on i386, you'ld copy the stuff from under:
ftp.freebsd.org://pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.9-RELEASE/
That should also be what appears inside the installer iso images,
which is an alternate place you could copy what you need from.
Note: this *won't* make the 2nd drive bootable as an install system.
You'll have to use the floppy or CDRoms to boot from still.
Note2: Not sure exactly how much of the stuff under is strictly
necessary to do an install. You'll have to experiment.
Cheers,
Matthew
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