From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 23 18:37:29 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: Freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 300121065698 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:37:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glen.j.barber@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qw0-f54.google.com (mail-qw0-f54.google.com [209.85.216.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D51058FC1E for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:37:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qwg5 with SMTP id 5so5988447qwg.13 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:37:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=lhdAoEPBLfo2ShPNHWQAqfKtro0wwswN/hT5hNFllr8=; b=UVCpuifUywqPe+4z6Inj9MnV0ZLMcX67Se9M0XyLRRqsbBxTuUozs7w0bMR4M7W0zR lQFJqNrL6ol4vSmrDSO43eK7eAfB1h9FrQ0hx+Nca3T8zPkyeXzfj0F5ar715mJtLG45 eE2GTw0zA5zGDQE3De92xCy04HrOqkpOph+oA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=tyCOpmGxXUs2F/eSk7Qu+TuPCJREl5B3yig+//YiSSvkFjbwnD+WovNfLA0a7aJwxr Mjk2mR9dOYCipaRsdXkWqgNUKXtdXZhwGnpisDmiD2NhripAVPaWJinhMC2nLG7erD2m 6sY13uP/aXbAobpMabFs4dolIyJ+Fd5XppNs8= Received: by 10.229.65.159 with SMTP id j31mr3099231qci.212.1282588647890; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:37:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from schism.local (173-161-130-225-Philadelphia.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.161.130.225]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id t18sm7368038qco.32.2010.08.23.11.37.26 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:37:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C72BFE5.4080903@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:37:25 -0400 From: Glen Barber User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Friedemann Becker References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8.1 memstick installation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:37:29 -0000 On 8/23/10 1:34 PM, Friedemann Becker wrote: > Hello, > > I have some questions about an installation on a memorystick. > > I have (a few weeks still) a very poor internet connection at home > that's unusable for anything beyond email. I tried some hacking on > musescore (yes I know that it can't work, but that's not my problem > for now). Since I don't want to carry missing ports/packages/other > stuff around on a stick everytime I miss something - which takes one > day each - i would like to have a working system (not installation > image) on usb-stick. > Can i use fdimage with the memorystick installation image on windows, > or any hacked versions of it? > And how do turn this stick in a running system? > Or is there any kind of live-stick-images out there, and if it is, how > to move these on the stick (since windows is missing dd and nero > doesn't like burning sticks :-) ) > You can try UnxUtils, from Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/unxutils/ dd.exe is included. (I haven't tested making a bootable memory stick on a Windows machine). Regards (and let me know if it works), -- Glen Barber