Within Reason: Category FreeBSD on USB

FreeBSD 6.1-RC2 out

Ceri Davies — Fri, 05 May 2006 00:32:00 +0000

I was going to make a new image for FreeBSD on USB 6.1-RC2, but I decided that with the actual release really close now, there wasn’t much point. The usual instructions will work just fine if you really want one.

One thing to mention regarding this release candidate is that binary upgrades don’t work; this was patched in -HEAD today, and will be fixed for 6.1-RELEASE.

John Birrell has the syscall provider for Dtrace working.

There was something else too, which I forgot.

Installing FreeBSD on a USB stick, episode II

Ceri Davies — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 21:37:00 +0000

I previously wrote about putting a 6.1-BETA4 FreeBSD installation on a USB stick. Since the bugs that were in the 6.1-BETA4 installation have been fixed, plus to get 6.1-RC1 tested, here are updated instructions (which should work with 6.1-RELEASE as well).

These instructions result in a downloadable image suitable for dding direct to a USB stick of 512MB or larger.

arved pointed out that it’s good to minimize the amount of writes done to USB sticks (and flash memory in general), and I’ve got some pointers in these instructions, but I haven’t really looked at this point.

If you are looking to install FreeBSD from a USB stick, you should check out Dario Freni’s script.

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.