a bunch of dumb questions about freebsd installing

[Yuri Pankov]

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 03:14:28PM +0600, Eugene M. Zheganin wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I have an IBM xSeries server, its ip-kvm and different FreeBSD images.
> The goal is to perform a remote installation of FreeBSD using server 
> ip-kvm and USB devices it emulates.
> I can perform a non-remote installation in a wariety of ways but this 
> post is about a remote one.
> 
> 1) Since USB gives an cd(4) device, it's possible to boot from 
> installation media, but impossible to use it for installation, because 
> sysinstall wants acd0. Is there any way ? I cannot figure one, except 
> using NFS or FTP install, which is not quite acceptable. Pure fixit 
> sheel seems to be missing everything needed, at least I didn't succeeded 
> at guessing where is mount for cd9660 and ls.

Try using Options -> Re-scan Devices, helped here with USB CD drive.

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Yuri