Re: Transfer CD image to USB memory stick?

2008-04-30 Thread Christian Laursen
memory stick and use memdisk from the syslinux package to load the image. A sample menu entry for grub is included in the script. http://borderworlds.dk/~xi/iso2diskimage.pl -- Christian Laursen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Transfer CD image to USB memory stick?

2008-04-29 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Hi, Could someone please point me to information how to achieve this? Have new hardware that lacks CD/floppy and want to install FreBSD... Thanks, --per ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Getting rid of /dev and mount entry after unplugging mounted USB memory stick

2005-11-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Hans Nieser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a way I can get rid of the bogus mount / device entry other than rebooting, or will I really have to teach myself to unmount my USB device everytime before I unplug it? Note that integrity of the data or data-transfer speed of the USB device

Getting rid of /dev and mount entry after unplugging mounted USB memory stick

2005-11-12 Thread Hans Nieser
Hi list, Every now and then I forget to unmount my USB memory stick. This becomes a problem because every time I do it, I am left with a bogus mount and device entry. umount -f makes the whole machine reboot instantly. From the googling that I have done, I have concluded that this is normal

Re: How to use USB memory-stick for booting FreeBSD?

2005-09-26 Thread jonas
I suppose one GigaByte should be enough for the base system of 5.4, isn't it? Definitely. The full base system (as I mentioned above) takes about 170 MB of disk space on i386 installations. hi! i would just like to add that it's a good idea to put rapidly changing

How to use USB memory-stick for booting FreeBSD?

2005-09-25 Thread Rob
Hi, I have a USB memory stick of one GigaByte. I learned that on some PCs, the BIOS allows booting from USB memory-stick. Is this possible with FreeBSD? If yes, then how do I install FreeBSD on such a USB memory stick, so that it becomes a 'bootable USB'? Thanks, Rob

Re: How to use USB memory-stick for booting FreeBSD?

2005-09-25 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-09-25 22:06, Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a USB memory stick of one GigaByte. I learned that on some PCs, the BIOS allows booting from USB memory-stick. Is this possible with FreeBSD? Yes. If yes, then how do I install FreeBSD on such a USB memory stick, so that it becomes

Re: How to use USB memory-stick for booting FreeBSD?

2005-09-25 Thread Rob
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-09-25 22:06, Rob wrote: I have a USB memory stick of one GigaByte. I learned that on some PCs, the BIOS allows booting from USB memory-stick. Is this possible with FreeBSD? Yes. Great! If yes, then how do I install FreeBSD on such a USB memory stick

Re: How to use USB memory-stick for booting FreeBSD?

2005-09-25 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-09-25 22:32, Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: By installing a FreeBSD base system on it (approx. 170 MB) and a boot loader, and setting your BIOS to boot from USB legacy device. Hmmm, how do I do that? After a system and kernel build, is it then something like

Respuesta: Re: USB memory stick hotswap problems

2004-09-29 Thread edwinculp
- Mensaje original - De: Julian Stacey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: MiƩrcoles, Septiembre 29, 2004 4:34 am Asunto: Re: USB memory stick hotswap problems Very telling mail that. Hopefully someone may find time to solve it. Yes, I agree, basically because Micro$oft has users accustomed

USB memory stick

2003-10-02 Thread Michael L. Hostbaek
I have just purchased a MP3 player - which basically consists of a USB 128MB memory stick, with some audio hardware.. Anyways, when I plug the USB stick into my 5.1-RELEASE-p3 box, I am seeing the following in /var/log/messages: Oct 2 15:31:27 kernel: umass0: SigmaTel, Inc. USBMSC Audio Player,

Re: USB memory stick

2003-10-02 Thread Jean-Baptiste Quenot
* Michael L. Hostbaek: I have just purchased a MP3 player - which basically consists of a USB 128MB memory stick, with some audio hardware.. Anyways, when I plug the USB stick into my 5.1-RELEASE-p3 box, I am seeing the following in /var/log/messages: Oct 2 15:31:27 kernel: umass0:

[doc pointer] 2 questions about usb memory stick ...

2003-06-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
roland Mathieu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've got a 128MB usb memory stick (pmi memory). It works very well since I've modified file /usr/src/sys/cam/scsi/scsi_da.c by adding lines: { /* * Pmi / 128MB */ {T_DIRECT, SIP_MEDIA_REMOVABLE, Generic*, USB

2 questions about usb memory stick ...

2003-06-18 Thread roland Mathieu
I've got a 128MB usb memory stick (pmi memory). It works very well since I've modified file /usr/src/sys/cam/scsi/scsi_da.c by adding lines: { /* * Pmi / 128MB */ {T_DIRECT, SIP_MEDIA_REMOVABLE, Generic*, USB Flash Disk*, *}, /*quirks

USB memory stick

2003-01-05 Thread Flemming Froekjaer
I have a 128 MB USB memory stick from ez-memory. When I connect it to my FreeBSD 4.7 box it is recognized, but I can't mount it. Any hints? \Flemming Jan 5 12:56:53 athlon /kernel: umass0: USB Solid state disk, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2 Jan 5 12:57:03 athlon /kernel: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target

Re: USB memory stick

2003-01-05 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 01/05/03 01:24 PM, Flemming Froekjaer sat at the `puter and typed: I have a 128 MB USB memory stick from ez-memory. When I connect it to my FreeBSD 4.7 box it is recognized, but I can't mount it. Any hints? \Flemming Jan 5 12:56:53 athlon /kernel: umass0: USB Solid state disk, rev

Re: USB memory stick

2003-01-05 Thread Flemming Froekjaer
Louis LeBlanc wrote: On 01/05/03 01:24 PM, Flemming Froekjaer sat at the `puter and typed: I have a 128 MB USB memory stick from ez-memory. When I connect it to my FreeBSD 4.7 box it is recognized, but I can't mount it. Any hints? \Flemming Jan 5 12:56:53 athlon /kernel: umass0: USB Solid