Re: Installing from USB Flash Drive

2007-08-06 Thread Reid Linnemann
Written by fbsd2 on 08/04/07 07:42 I was really taken with the idea for using a USB flash stick disk drive to install FreeBSD from. I used the script from the mentioned URL below as the starting point. After some changes to the script I got it to work. I was able to boot off the USB flash stick

RE: Installing from USB Flash Drive

2007-08-06 Thread fbsd2
] Behalf Of Reid Linnemann Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 8:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Ross Penner; User questions Subject: Re: Installing from USB Flash Drive When booting the USB flash drive which contains the install cd1 iso you go into sysinstall by default. There is no way to stay

Re: Installing from USB Flash Drive

2007-08-06 Thread Reid Linnemann
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Reid Linnemann Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 8:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Ross Penner; User questions Subject: Re: Installing from USB Flash Drive When booting the USB flash drive which contains the install cd1 iso you go into sysinstall

RE: Installing from USB Flash Drive

2007-08-06 Thread fbsd2
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Reid Linnemann Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 8:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Ross Penner; User questions Subject: Re: Installing from USB Flash Drive When booting the USB flash drive which contains the install cd1 iso you go into sysinstall

RE: Installing from USB Flash Drive

2007-08-04 Thread fbsd2
I was really taken with the idea for using a USB flash stick disk drive to install FreeBSD from. I used the script from the mentioned URL below as the starting point. After some changes to the script I got it to work. I was able to boot off the USB flash stick disk drive, But then was faced

Re: Installing from USB Flash Drive

2007-08-01 Thread Reid Linnemann
Written by Ross Penner on 08/01/07 13:34 Hi everybody, I'm trying to install a system on a machine that doesn't have an optical drive. I plan on using a USB flash drive to do the job and found a messages from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg55434.html)

Re: Installing from USB Flash Drive

2007-08-01 Thread Reid Linnemann
Written by Andrey Shuvikov on 08/01/07 14:17 On 8/1/07, Ross Penner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody, I'm trying to install a system on a machine that doesn't have an optical drive. I plan on using a USB flash drive to do the job and found a messages from [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing from USB Flash Drive

2007-08-01 Thread Andrey Shuvikov
On 8/1/07, Ross Penner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody, I'm trying to install a system on a machine that doesn't have an optical drive. I plan on using a USB flash drive to do the job and found a messages from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL

Re: Installing from USB Flash Drive

2007-08-01 Thread Ross Penner
On 8/1/07, Reid Linnemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Written by Ross Penner on 08/01/07 13:34 Hi everybody, I'm trying to install a system on a machine that doesn't have an optical drive. I plan on using a USB flash drive to do the job and found a messages from [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing from USB Flash Drive

2007-08-01 Thread Reid Linnemann
Written by Ross Penner on 08/01/07 16:21 On 8/1/07, *Reid Linnemann* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Written by Ross Penner on 08/01/07 13:34 Hi everybody, I'm trying to install a system on a machine that doesn't have an optical drive. I plan

Re: Installing from USB Flash Drive

2007-08-01 Thread Ross Penner
On 8/1/07, Reid Linnemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Written by Ross Penner on 08/01/07 16:21 On 8/1/07, *Reid Linnemann* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Written by Ross Penner on 08/01/07 13:34 Hi everybody, I'm trying to install a system on

Re: Installing from USB Flash Drive

2007-08-01 Thread Craig Boston
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 12:34:15PM -0600, Ross Penner wrote: I'm using a via chipset and yes, the bios is set to boot from USB-FDD. I used the 6.2 boot only image. I don't think that that option, which is for USB floppy drives, is what you want. USB flash memory uses a different protocol and