Re: Booting from Memory Stick

2008-03-02 Thread Walker
On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 4:23 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am working on getting a FreeBSD system to boot from a USB memory stick. FWIW, my cut/paste script for installing 7.0 to a USB flash drive. This is adapted from a post by Ceri Davies (thank you!). ** This assumes the drive is at

Re: Booting from Memory Stick

2008-03-02 Thread Walker
On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # set root password and timezone (optionally add users here as well) chroot ${USBMNT} /bin/sh passwd root tzsetup One error, the above should be: # set root password and timezone (optionally add users here as well) chroot

Booting from Memory Stick

2008-03-01 Thread jhall
I am working on getting a FreeBSD system to boot from a USB memory stick. Would it be possible to install the operating system using the following: cd /usr/src make DESTDIR=/mnt/usbdisk world boot0cfg -v -B -o noupdate da0 Or, is there an easier way to do this? Thanks, Jay

Re: Booting from Memory Stick

2008-03-01 Thread Derek Ragona
At 03:23 PM 3/1/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am working on getting a FreeBSD system to boot from a USB memory stick. Would it be possible to install the operating system using the following: cd /usr/src make DESTDIR=/mnt/usbdisk world boot0cfg -v -B -o noupdate da0 Or, is there an easier

Re: Booting from Memory Stick

2008-03-01 Thread Tim Kellers
I made a bootable system on a stick a few months ago. I used it to dd clone a WinXP image to some Gateway desktops in a lab. I think I just plugged the stick into my FreeBSD laptop fired up sysinstall and treated the stick as a da drive that needed a full install. Tim Derek Ragona wrote:

Re: Booting from Memory Stick

2008-03-01 Thread Dominique Goncalves
Hi, On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 10:23 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am working on getting a FreeBSD system to boot from a USB memory stick. Would it be possible to install the operating system using the following: cd /usr/src make DESTDIR=/mnt/usbdisk world boot0cfg -v -B -o noupdate da0

Re: Booting from Memory Stick

2008-03-01 Thread John Nielsen
On Saturday 01 March 2008 04:23:24 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am working on getting a FreeBSD system to boot from a USB memory stick. Would it be possible to install the operating system using the following: cd /usr/src make DESTDIR=/mnt/usbdisk world boot0cfg -v -B -o noupdate da0

Problem booting from memory-stick with ASUS A7V-133

2007-07-24 Thread ilsa . gold
Hi all, hope this is the right list. I have a problem with booting from a 128MB USB-memory-stick with the ASUS A7V-133 motherboard. I downloaded the boot-floppy-imageboot.flp (version 6.2) from the FreeBSD-FTP-server and dd-ed it to a memory stick. Booting from this stick works fine with

Re: Problem booting from memory-stick with ASUS A7V-133

2007-07-24 Thread Steve Bertrand
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, hope this is the right list. I have a problem with booting from a 128MB USB-memory-stick with the ASUS A7V-133 motherboard. I downloaded the boot-floppy-imageboot.flp (version 6.2) from the FreeBSD-FTP-server and dd-ed it to a memory stick. Booting

Re: Problem booting from memory-stick with ASUS A7V-133

2007-07-24 Thread ilsa . gold
Hi Steve, I have a problem with booting from a 128MB USB-memory-stick with the ASUS A7V-133 motherboard. I downloaded the boot-floppy-imageboot.flp (version 6.2) from the FreeBSD-FTP-server and dd-ed it to a memory stick. Booting from this stick works fine with every other computer I