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I am wondering if there is a way to boot a FreeBSD sysinstall session from GRUB. This, for example, can be accomplished for many GNU/Linux distributions by using the appropriate installation boot kernel and initrd in the distribution release tree. I am not sure if these exist in BSD, or where to find them. My Google searches on this topic have thus far been fruitless. Why not just burn the CDs? I don't have any CDRs at the moment, but further more am ideologically opposed to CDs as a distribution medium in comparison to reasonable sources like FTP.
Last edited by jhwilliams; 01-29-2008 at 10:37 AM.
Thanks for the link. Has anyone else had luck in finding a method which does not require a pen drive - i.e. something you can do to boot right from the harddrive?
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