On Sat, 20 Oct 2007, ECEG / Daniel Duerr wrote: > I should note that these systems are all (a) floppy drive free and > (b) standard IDE/ATA hard drive free (e.g.: booting from RAID) so > everything I do has to be done with .iso -> CD-R burns or a usb flash > drive. If I'd been doing things with a floppy scenario it would > likely have been easier... Hmm, well sysinstall could be modified to load KLDs from arbitary devices, I have a PR to load install.cfg from any disk sysinstall sees (eg floppy, CDROM, DOS disk [ie flash drive]). I did write the original sysinstall patch for loading KLDs in sysinstall so I guess I'm well equipped to update it ;) > In the end, the way I built an install CD was I used a Windows-only > piece of software called UltraISO which allows you to edit .iso > images and add/remove files. I dropped the precompiled .ko driver > into /boot/kernel/ on the downloadable Freebsd boot iso and then > burned a custom boot CD with the right drivers on it. When I boot > from that CD, I load the driver and then continue with the > installation. It all works well from there. That works for drivers that are not already present in the kernel but I believe it doesn't for ones that are already present (eg twa for a 9650SE..) I haven't actually tried this so I'm not sure - I'd like to be wrong ;) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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