Re: Bootable USB images (Re: using d-i to install kfreebsd-i386 from usb)

2009-12-31 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 09:39:11PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:37:28PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 01:48:10PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: The standard (I have Ecma 119 (= ISO 9660), SUSP, RRIP and El Torito here as PDFs, they’re

Re: Bootable USB images (Re: using d-i to install kfreebsd-i386 from usb)

2009-12-31 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 03:12:37PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 09:39:11PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:37:28PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 01:48:10PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: The standard (I have Ecma 119 (=

Re: Bootable USB images (Re: using d-i to install kfreebsd-i386 from usb)

2009-12-30 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:37:28PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 01:48:10PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: The standard (I have Ecma 119 (= ISO 9660), SUSP, RRIP and El Torito here as PDFs, they’re “freeware”) however specifies that the first 32 KiB of an ISO 9660

Bootable USB images (Re: using d-i to install kfreebsd-i386 from usb)

2009-12-21 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 01:48:10PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: The standard (I have Ecma 119 (= ISO 9660), SUSP, RRIP and El Torito here as PDFs, they’re “freeware”) however specifies that the first 32 KiB of an ISO 9660 filesystem image are empty and available for, for example, bootloaders.

Re: Bootable USB images (Re: using d-i to install kfreebsd-i386 from usb)

2009-12-21 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:37:28PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: This takes advantage of the new infrastructure for bootable image generation (grub-mkrescue), which abstracts the architecture-specific GRUB setup so that you only need to worry about your grub.cfg and not about image building.

Re: using d-i to install kfreebsd-i386 from usb

2009-12-17 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 09:50:12AM +1100, Joshua Cummings wrote: 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. GRUB supports booting from USB sticks (from GRUB perspective, they're

Re: using d-i to install kfreebsd-i386 from usb

2009-12-17 Thread Luca Favatella
On 17/12/2009, Thorsten Glaser t...@mirbsd.de wrote: Luca Favatella dixit: I'll probably test this solution (dd iso to usb) when possible. Well, the ISO image has to be specially prepared for it. [...] I was thinking there was no need to prepare a special iso. Thanks for your clarification.

using d-i to install kfreebsd-i386 from usb

2009-12-16 Thread Luca Favatella
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). Cheers, Luca Favatella -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: using d-i to install kfreebsd-i386 from usb

2009-12-16 Thread Joshua Cummings
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

Re: using d-i to install kfreebsd-i386 from usb

2009-12-16 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Luca Favatella dixit: Is there a way to use d-i to install kfreebsd-i386 from usb? I don't see any technical reason why not. It probably depends on the bootloader used. MirBSD uses the manifold-boot method with MirBSD's loader. Grml uses the manifold-boot method with GNU GRUB 2. Others use

Re: using d-i to install kfreebsd-i386 from usb

2009-12-16 Thread Luca Favatella
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.

Re: using d-i to install kfreebsd-i386 from usb

2009-12-16 Thread Luca Favatella
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:32:10PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Luca Favatella dixit: Is there a way to use d-i to install kfreebsd-i386 from usb? I don't see any technical reason why not. It probably depends on the bootloader used. MirBSD uses the manifold-boot method with MirBSD's