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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > The Ultimate BSD Thread™ - The Devil Wears a Neckbeard
 
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Megaman
May 8, 2004
I didn't read the thread BUT...
I am absolutely brand new to BSD and fairly new to Linux/UNIX. What are the essentials to getting a BSD box online in a corporate environment? Currently I am running a test virtual BSD box and IP's don't resolve. Can anyone help a stupid noob?

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Megaman
May 8, 2004
I didn't read the thread BUT...
can anyone quickly sum up how to install software on bsd from cli? i dread reading the bsd docs..

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Megaman
May 8, 2004
I didn't read the thread BUT...

Dijkstracula posted:

# make install

But no, really, what BSD flavour? Are you installing packages or from source/ports? If you don't want to read the documentation (which is, really, not that hard to slog through) you're going to have an unpleasant time at things..

freebsd, both ports and not

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Megaman
May 8, 2004
I didn't read the thread BUT...
What is the difference between port and source? Isn't that the same thing?

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Megaman
May 8, 2004
I didn't read the thread BUT...
Porting from the tech haus forum:

I'm trying to boot a live freebsd iso directly from USB so I can install it on any computer I plug it into, but I don't grub4dos doesn't seem to want to load it.

I can entre the BTX loader but freebsd claims it "can't work out which disk we re booting from, guessed BIOS device 0xffffffff not found by probes, defaulting to disk0:

can't load 'kernel'

Does anyone know how to resolve this error? Is this something with FreeBSD or a grub4dos directive that I'm missing to specify disks?

Also, should I be booting freebsd as an iso (which I prefer) or should I be extracting it.


I guess what I'm really requesting is a menu.lst example of the freebsd live iso direct boot entry or the extracted iso entry. Anything to get freebsd to boot off a usb key will do.

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Megaman
May 8, 2004
I didn't read the thread BUT...

EvilMoFo posted:

iirc, this works on the usb drive I have loaded with this
code:
title FreeBSD 8.1 x86
find --set-root /FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso
map --mem /FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso (hd32)
map --hook
root (hd32)
chainloader (hd32)

That did it, minus the --mem

Swear that's what I had...maybe it was the (hd32) instead of (hd0,0) or (0xff) that allowed it to boot, but I'm not sure why that is because they should all do the same thing.

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Megaman
May 8, 2004
I didn't read the thread BUT...

EvilMoFo posted:

iirc, this works on the usb drive I have loaded with this
code:
title FreeBSD 8.1 x86
find --set-root /FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso
map --mem /FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso (hd32)
map --hook
root (hd32)
chainloader (hd32)



So now I have another question, I get it booted up but when I go to apply the partition information and install the base it gives me "cannot install from [insert whatever USB disk I'm using]" It cannot find the USB key that I have the iso on. This is when I select "install from DOS partition". When I select "install from USB key it thinks I have no USB key installed. Do you have any fix for this?

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