On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 at 18:56, Steven Sartorius <ssartor@bellatlantic.net> wrote:
>All,
>
>I'm in the process of putting together a small form factor box to use  
>as a file server/mail server/firewall etc. for my home network.  To  
>simplify things (and to trim the cost) I'd rather not install a  
>floppy or optical drive.  The box will boot from a USB stick so I'd  
>like to try and install NetBSD this way.  A quick Google turned up  
>LiveKey which was interesting but not quite what I wanted -- I want  
>to install NetBSD from the USB stick onto the machine's hard drive.   
>In effect, I'd like to "burn" a NetBSD .iso file onto the memory  
>stick; when I boot from the stick I drop right into sysinst.  Anyone  
>done this before?  Any tips/advice?

  I've done this using GRUB as the bootloader on the flashdrive and then
copying the installation kernels and sets from the CDROM (or an image of
one) to the flashdrive.  I prefer using GRUB as the bootloader on my
flashdrive because it allows me to boot other images besides NetBSD kernels
such as memtest86, Partition Magic, Spinrite, etc.

  I've written a procedure for doing all this:
  http://jdwhite.menelos.com/netbsd/nbsd_inst_from_flashdrive.txt

-Jason

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