On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 14:11 -0200, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote:
Hello
I notice that when you write zeros to the first sectors
of the pen drive it gets mad about it
and you must make fsck and disklabel TWICE...
the first time, it complains,
the second time it works fine
I assume you
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au wrote:
This seems to be a bit of a sideline... but how does it work if you move
the disk around? Assuming generic kernel, you should be boot that kernel
on practically any machine- right? But I had trouble with it not
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote:
Your link to the instructions is dead.
The page has been down on me before...give it a few hours, or plug
that URL into Google and load the cached version (which takes a while
to load since the CSS still tries to come from
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On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 14:11 -0200, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote:
Hello
I notice that when you write zeros to the first sectors
of the pen drive it gets mad about it
and you must make fsck and disklabel TWICE...
the first time, it complains,
the second time it works
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Brian McCann bjmcc...@gmail.com wrote:
Well this just got a LOT more frustrating and interesting. I made a
stick following those directions using a new stick...worked fine,
booted off of it...did some work on it...somehow the filesystem got
very corrupted in
Brian McCann wrote:
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Brian McCann bjmcc...@gmail.com wrote:
Well this just got a LOT more frustrating and interesting. I made a
stick following those directions using a new stick...worked fine,
booted off of it...did some work on it...somehow the filesystem got
Brian McCann wrote:
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote:
El día Wednesday, January 07, 2009 a las 03:17:02PM +0100, Polytropon escribió:
I could only suggest to eliminate all slices and partitions on the
thumb drive (such as it was a new disk right from the
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 4:30 AM, chris.scott k...@snaffler.net wrote:
if your still stuck i can give you a dd of my usb image that definitely
works
if it still doesnt work for you you will know its a hardware issue and not
your building skills 8)
Brian McCann wrote:
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at
Well this just got a LOT more frustrating and interesting. I made a
stick following those directions using a new stick...worked fine,
booted off of it...did some work on it...somehow the filesystem got
very corrupted in one of various things I was doing to it (I think it
was when I
Hello
I notice that when you write zeros to the first sectors
of the pen drive it gets mad about it
and you must make fsck and disklabel TWICE...
the first time, it complains,
the second time it works fine
I assume you have grub installed (pkg_add -r grub)
I use the folowing procedure:
1)
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote:
El día Wednesday, January 07, 2009 a las 03:17:02PM +0100, Polytropon
escribió:
I could only suggest to eliminate all slices and partitions on the
thumb drive (such as it was a new disk right from the factory)
and let
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Chris Scott chris.sc...@uk.tiscali.com wrote:
Hi,
Ditch sysinstall and follow this
http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/04/13/installing-freebsd-on-usb-
stick-episode-2
glabel (the -L one newfs) is your friend, as it will help you avoid the
Hi all. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 7.1 off the CD to a USB thumb
drive, but every time I try it fails. sysinstall says Unable to make
new root filesystem on /dev/da0s1a1. Command returned status 38.
When I switch to the debug console, I get cg 0: bad magic number.
This thumb drive was being
On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 08:25:45 -0500, Brian McCann bjmcc...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 7.1 off the CD to a USB thumb
drive, but every time I try it fails. sysinstall says Unable to make
new root filesystem on /dev/da0s1a1. Command returned status 38.
When I switch
El día Wednesday, January 07, 2009 a las 03:17:02PM +0100, Polytropon escribió:
On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 08:25:45 -0500, Brian McCann bjmcc...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 7.1 off the CD to a USB thumb
drive, but every time I try it fails. sysinstall says Unable to make
Matthias Apitz wrote:
El día Wednesday, January 07, 2009 a las 03:17:02PM +0100, Polytropon
escribió:
On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 08:25:45 -0500, Brian McCann bjmcc...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 7.1 off the CD to a USB thumb
drive, but every time I try it fails.
Steve Bertrand wrote:
Matthias Apitz wrote:
El día Wednesday, January 07, 2009 a las 03:17:02PM +0100, Polytropon escribió:
On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 08:25:45 -0500, Brian McCann bjmcc...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 7.1 off the CD to a USB thumb
drive, but every time I
Hi,
Ditch sysinstall and follow this
http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/04/13/installing-freebsd-on-usb-
stick-episode-2
glabel (the -L one newfs) is your friend, as it will help you avoid the
situation when you get boot failures when you try to boot off ur usb
disk on a machine
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