Install FreeBSD 8.0 from USB memory stick

Martin Wilke has a useful step-by-setp guide (via bsdgroup.de) to install FreeBSD 8.0 (stable version yet to be released) from a USB pendrive:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=1k count=1

bsdlabel -Bw da0 auto

newfs -L FreeBSD /dev/da0a

mdconfig -a -t vnode -f 8.0-HEAD-20090609-JPSNAP-i386-dvd1 -u 0 && mount -r -t cd9660 /dev/md0 /mnt/iso

mount /dev/da0a /mnt/USB-Stick

copy all files from your mounted cd in to your USB-Stick, after that you need to create a fstab for your USB-Stick

vi /mnt/USB-Stick/etc/fstab and put following in:

/dev/ufs/FreeBSD / ufs ro 0 0