Greetings,
I've tried to install FreeBSD 8.2 on two different Macs which both have bad optical drives. So I am trying to perform the install from removable media. I've tried USB flash drive and an external firewire HD. Neither is working. I can get the loader to boot (manually through open firmware) but I can never get past the loader. It always ends up saying
I get farther along with the USB/flash drive: it will actually state
I followed the steps from this post: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=25266. I can use dir <OF device tree path>,:\ to list the contents of the install CD on the flash drive. I've passed the argument of the <OF device tree path> to the loader when I run the boot command.
When I run lsdev, it shows no block devices available. Should I give up and set up a DHCP/TFTP/NFS server and run the install that way? Thanks for any help you can offer!
I've tried to install FreeBSD 8.2 on two different Macs which both have bad optical drives. So I am trying to perform the install from removable media. I've tried USB flash drive and an external firewire HD. Neither is working. I can get the loader to boot (manually through open firmware) but I can never get past the loader. It always ends up saying
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can't load 'kernel'.I get farther along with the USB/flash drive: it will actually state
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could not open <OF device tree path>I followed the steps from this post: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=25266. I can use dir <OF device tree path>,:\ to list the contents of the install CD on the flash drive. I've passed the argument of the <OF device tree path> to the loader when I run the boot command.
When I run lsdev, it shows no block devices available. Should I give up and set up a DHCP/TFTP/NFS server and run the install that way? Thanks for any help you can offer!