Re: Installation of Freebsd on external hard drive
Eric Schuele <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile,gmane.os.freebsd.questions |
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Marco Calviani wrote: > Hello freebsd-mobile, > i'm a quite experienced Debian laptop user using an Acer Travelmate 8005. I > would like to install freebsd on an external USB or Firewire HD and choose > which OS use at startup (maybe within the GRUB loader). However i'm a BSD > newbie. > Could you give me some hints on how to perform this task? What option should > i choose for the bootloader? > I've installed it on USB keys and external USB drives with no problem. Since I was only using those for experimentation, I never modified my boot loader. My BIOS provides a boot menu for selecting the boot device, of which "external USB device" is an option. I found this cleaner, since when not using those devices I do not have to go through the FreeBSD boot menu. Hints? For my situation... I booted from the CD. When asked to slice and partition my disk... I chose the external USB device. I selected the 'standard boot loader'. Then the rest of the magic is handled by my BIOS. Don't know if that helps you much. > Thanks in advance for the help, > MC > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" > -- Regards, Eric _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"