Attachment 106683 Details for Bug 147347 – chapter.sgml.txt

chapter.sgml.txt

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>--- handbook/install/chapter.sgml.orig	2010-07-19 17:03:42.763886000 -0400
>+++ handbook/install/chapter.sgml	2010-07-20 08:44:18.609955721 -0400
>@@ -630,6 +630,10 @@
> 	</listitem>
> 
> 	<listitem>
>+	  <para>A USB Memory Stick</para>
>+	</listitem>
>+
>+	<listitem>
> 	  <para>A DOS partition on the same computer</para>
> 	</listitem>
> 
>@@ -695,6 +699,13 @@
>       <procedure>
> 	<step>
> 	  <title>Acquire the Boot Floppy Images</title>
>+
>+          <important>
>+            <para>Please note, as of &os; release 8.0, floppy disk
>+              images are no longer available.  Please see below for
>+              instructions on how to install &os; using a USB memory
>+              stick.</para>
>+          </important>
> 	  
> 	  <para>The boot disks are available on your installation media
> 	    in the <filename>floppies/</filename> directory, and
>@@ -799,6 +810,70 @@
> 	</step>
>       </procedure>
> 
>+      <para>To create a bootable memory stick, follow these steps:</para>
>+
>+      <procedure>
>+	<step>
>+	  <title>Acquire the Memory Stick Image</title>
>+	  
>+	  <para>The memory stick image can be downloaded from the
>+            <filename>ISO-IMAGES/</filename> directory from
>+	    <literal>ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/<replaceable>&lt;arch&gt;</replaceable>/ISO-IMAGES/<replaceable>&lt;version&gt;</replaceable>/&rel.current;-RELEASE-&lt;arch&gt;-memstick.img</literal>.
>+	    Replace <replaceable>&lt;arch&gt;</replaceable> and
>+	    <replaceable>&lt;version&gt;</replaceable>
>+	    with the architecture and the version number
>+	    which you want to install, respectively.
>+	    For example, the memory stick images for
>+	    &os;/&arch.i386;&nbsp;&rel.current;-RELEASE are available
>+	    from <ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/&arch.i386;/ISO-IMAGES/&rel.current;/&rel.current;-RELEASE-&arch.i386;-memstick.img"></ulink>.</para>
>+
>+	  <para>The memory stick image has a <filename>.img</filename> extension.
>+	    The <filename>ISO-IMAGES/</filename> directory contains a number of
>+	    different images, and the ones you will need to use depends on the
>+	    version of FreeBSD you are installing, and in some cases, the
>+	    hardware you are installing to.</para>
>+
>+	  <important>
>+	    <para>Before proceeding, <emphasis>back up</emphasis> the
>+              data you currently have on your USB stick, as this
>+              procedure will <emphasis>erase</emphasis> it.</para>
>+	  </important>
>+	</step>
>+
>+	<step>
>+	  <title>Prepare the Memory Stick</title>
>+
>+          <warning>
>+            <para>The example below lists <literal>/dev/da0</literal>
>+              as the target device from which you will be booting.  Be
>+              very careful that you have the correct device as the
>+              output target, or you may destroy your existing 
>+              data.</para>
>+          </warning>
>+
>+          <para>Replacing <replaceable>da0</replaceable> with the
>+            device your memory stick shows up as, erase the current
>+            data from the memory stick.</para>
>+
>+          <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/<replaceable>da0</replaceable> bs=1k count=1</userinput></screen>
>+        </step>
>+	  
>+	<step>
>+	  <title>Write the Image File to the Memory Stick</title>
>+
>+	  <para>The <filename>.img</filename> file is
>+	    <emphasis>not</emphasis> a regular file you copy to the
>+            memory stick.  It is an image of the complete contents of
>+            the disk.  This means that you <emphasis>cannot</emphasis>
>+            simply copy files from one disk to another.  Instead, you
>+            must use &man.dd.1; to write the images directly to the
>+            disk:</para>
>+
>+          <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>dd if=&rel.current;-RELEASE-&arch.i386;-memstick.img of=/dev/<replaceable>da0</replaceable> bs=64k</userinput></screen>
>+
>+	</step>
>+      </procedure>
>+
>       <para>You are now ready to start installing FreeBSD.</para>
>     </sect2>
>   </sect1>

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