Hi folks!
Installing an ISO using a USB external drive has several advantages: it is environmentally correct, it saves money, avoids material waste, etc. etc. etc. FreeBSD provides the memstick.img, supposedly for that purpose - which is great!
Here are a few things I looked around and have tried in order to get a FreeBSD ISO onto the USB device:
I plan to use the USB SIO to install FreeBSD on a partitioned Mac Mini that doesn't have a CD/DVD reader.
The fact is, neither approach worked, and I haven't found anywhere anything about someone getting a FreeBSD install from USB. So, I wonder what is missing or if there is somebody out there who have managed to make successful use of USB for a FreeBSD install.
I hope that this post might be worth and helpful for others too.
If any clue or hint could be posted, it would be extremely appreciated.
Installing an ISO using a USB external drive has several advantages: it is environmentally correct, it saves money, avoids material waste, etc. etc. etc. FreeBSD provides the memstick.img, supposedly for that purpose - which is great!
Here are a few things I looked around and have tried in order to get a FreeBSD ISO onto the USB device:
- Running on FreeBSD and KDE4 from a laptop
Code:# ./iso2flash.sh -t msdosfs FreeBSD-9.1-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img /dev/da0s1 ./iso2flash.sh: -----------: not found convert tree -t image makefs: Can't stat `-t': No such file or directory bsdlabel: couldn't read 8192 bytes from msdosfs
The iso2flash.sh is suggested here. - Running on Mac Mini OSX Mountain Lion
Code:# dd if="FreeBSD"-9.1-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img of="/dev/disk1s1 bs="10240" >
It hangs and after hours no ISO is mounted onto the USB.
The second approach is suggested here, and equally failed.
I plan to use the USB SIO to install FreeBSD on a partitioned Mac Mini that doesn't have a CD/DVD reader.
The fact is, neither approach worked, and I haven't found anywhere anything about someone getting a FreeBSD install from USB. So, I wonder what is missing or if there is somebody out there who have managed to make successful use of USB for a FreeBSD install.
I hope that this post might be worth and helpful for others too.
If any clue or hint could be posted, it would be extremely appreciated.