Within Reason: Installing FreeBSD onto a USB stick

Installing FreeBSD onto a USB stick

Ceri Davies — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 22:55:00 +0000

Note: this is pretty much obsoleted by the followup article. You really should read that one instead.

It seems that a bunch of folks are ending up here by searching for instructions for installing FreeBSD on a USB stick, so here they are.

Thu, 01 Jun 2006 11:46:50 +0000

the line: "mv /mnt/GENERIC /mnt/boot/kernel" should read as: "mv /mnt/boot/GENERIC /mnt/boot/kernel" best regards.

Thu, 01 Jun 2006 11:46:50 +0000

Actually, with the slightly buggy kernel dists in 6.1-BETA4, this was right. It's good in the RELEASE, as captured in the followup.

Fri, 24 Mar 2006 10:47:31 +0000

I think the most interesting topic is, how to minimize write access to the flash, to increase the lifetime of the flash on the USB stick..

Fri, 24 Mar 2006 10:47:31 +0000

Agreed. I'm still working on that myself, but will write something up should I feel confident in my solution.