installing 6.2 from external USB DVD-ROM drive - Derek Ragona - org.freebsd.freebsd-questions

7 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-questionsinstalling 6.2 from external USB DVD-...

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Noah	Mar 10, 2007 11:41 pm
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Noah	Mar 11, 2007 12:18 am
Noah	Mar 11, 2007 12:19 am
Derek Ragona	Mar 11, 2007 3:14 am

Subject:	installing 6.2 from external USB DVD-ROM drive
From:	Derek Ragona (der...@computinginnovations.com)
Date:	Mar 11, 2007 3:14:58 am
List:	org.freebsd.freebsd-questions

Usually it is: /dev/cd0 /dev/cd1

etc, depends on how many optical drives you have.

In sysinstall, you can go to the index of functions and from there execute the start an emergency shell. That will start the emergency shell so you can do the manual mount on the other virtual terminal without leaving sysinstall.

-Derek

At 06:19 PM 3/10/2007, Noah wrote:

if I attempt to exit sysinstall then it says the only other option is to reboot.

Derek Ragona wrote:

If you boot then exit sysinstall to a prompt, try to mount the external drive. If you can mount it, then rerun sysinstall and choose to install from a mounted file system instead. -Derek At 05:45 PM 3/10/2007, Noah wrote:

More details:

I am able to boot and get to the installation utility but when I go to "choose installation media" and choose "CD/DVD" the response is "No CD/DVD devices found!"

what can I do about this?

Cheers,

Hi there, is there a way to install FreeBSD from an external USB DVD-ROM drive? I am at a loss of how to do it. Cheers, Noah

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