I have a laptop that I want to use with FreeBSD 9.3 (Dell Mini 1012). The catch is twofold: 1) I don't have a DVD burner handy so I need to do the install from a USB flash drive. 2) I need to take the USB install media and install FreeBSD it to another flash drive. I've done this in the past with Linux, where I've had to do this and was successful with it.
I've tried all manner of ISO to USB utility under Windows and simply cannot write the FreeBSD DVD ISO to the flash drive properly. I tried to use dd under Linux and even that didn't work. I'm wondering now how I can write this DVD ISO to a USB drive and get it to boot so I can install it.
The other issue (maybe) is installing FreeBSD 9.3 to a flash drive as its primary hard drive. I know this works under Linux without a hitch (I had Backtrack, Kali, Fedora, and CentOS running from flash drives). The reason I need to do this now is that the laptop already has WinXP and Kali Linux installed and I have no more drive space for another OS.
Can this work?
I've tried all manner of ISO to USB utility under Windows and simply cannot write the FreeBSD DVD ISO to the flash drive properly. I tried to use dd under Linux and even that didn't work. I'm wondering now how I can write this DVD ISO to a USB drive and get it to boot so I can install it.
The other issue (maybe) is installing FreeBSD 9.3 to a flash drive as its primary hard drive. I know this works under Linux without a hitch (I had Backtrack, Kali, Fedora, and CentOS running from flash drives). The reason I need to do this now is that the laptop already has WinXP and Kali Linux installed and I have no more drive space for another OS.
Can this work?