I'm running an old Toshiba with a busted cd drive. This Toshiba has the interesting quality of being unable to boot from a usb cd drive. I have scoured the interwebs for ways to install FreeBSD (7.4 preferably) on it from a usb drive. I have been unable to find such a solution.
I have installed grub2 on a stick but I can't find the correct config chage to make to the grub.cfg file to be able to install FreeBSD from it.
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=5918
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=12082
http://forums.freebsd.org/archive/index.php/t-9777.html
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1645298
and the most promising...
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=19701
Is it impossible to boot into something via USB and then begin to load the FreeBSD install iso from that environment? Right now I have access to Ubuntu, Windows and OpenSolaris. There must be some tool out there somewhere that will let me do this. I don't want to load the OS ONTO the USB stick. I want to load it FROM the USB stick. I just bought Absolute FreeBSD and I am dying to jump into this OS and learn. But I cant...
I have installed grub2 on a stick but I can't find the correct config chage to make to the grub.cfg file to be able to install FreeBSD from it.
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=5918
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=12082
http://forums.freebsd.org/archive/index.php/t-9777.html
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1645298
and the most promising...
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=19701
Is it impossible to boot into something via USB and then begin to load the FreeBSD install iso from that environment? Right now I have access to Ubuntu, Windows and OpenSolaris. There must be some tool out there somewhere that will let me do this. I don't want to load the OS ONTO the USB stick. I want to load it FROM the USB stick. I just bought Absolute FreeBSD and I am dying to jump into this OS and learn. But I cant...