Does anyone have a pointer to a FreeBSD 7 install method for those of us 
without CD/DVD Rom drives?

The easiest way for me would be to boot off of a USB stick and then 
install across the network, but I'm open to suggestions.

Sean
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Try the following

http://frenzy.org.ua/en/
http://frenzy.org.ua/en/releases/1.0/doc/doc_en-install2flash.html



Thursday, May 15, 2008, 5:50:45 AM, you wrote:

SB> Does anyone have a pointer to a FreeBSD 7 install method for those of us 
SB> without CD/DVD Rom drives?

SB> The easiest way for me would be to boot off of a USB stick and then 
SB> install across the network, but I'm open to suggestions.

SB> Sean
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Best regards,
 Anthony                            mailto:ap00@mail.ru


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Try Unetbootin, I used it to install FreeBSD on my fit-PC from a USB
stick, went pretty smooth.

/Johan
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The simplest way would be to get a USB CDROM drive.

Note that it is likely you will need a version of FreeBSD released after=20
this commit..

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/boot/i386/btx/btx/btx.S?rev=
=3D1.46

Unfortunately as of today it will only be in a -current snapshot :(
eg ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200805

You might be lucky and it will work but if not you will find the loader=20
crashes (eg spins really fast writing register dumps to the screen..)

It is fairly straight forward to create a USB key with FreeBSD on it but=20
it requires a FreeBSD system to create it..

http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/4/13/installing-freebsd-on-usb-stic=
k-episode-2
(I haven't actually tried this but it looks OK - I have done it with=20
=46reesBIE though)

=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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Sean,

   How about a net-boot? That would be my next logical suggestion -- as far
as I'm concerned its relatively hard to install via USB key at least i'm not
aware of any current ways to do so.

respectfully,

jt

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