Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:45:06 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>, Ken Smith <kensmith@buffalo.edu> Subject: Re: 7.3-BETA1 Available... [memstick.img?] Message-ID: <201001301945.14487.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20100130164546.K46992@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <1264828108.4948.18.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu> <20100130164546.K46992@sola.nimnet.asn.au>
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--nextPart3125385.gH9e7dHVF0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sat, 30 Jan 2010, Ian Smith wrote: > My search for information on the particular recipe/s used to make the > 8.0-R memstick images has proven fruitless so far, despite several > useful suggestions on ways to make various other sorts of bootable > USB stick images. =A0So far they seem to have been made out-of-band, > somehow? > > My particular interest is in putting DVD release/s onto a 4GB(+) > stick, hopefully on bootable slices rather than 'dangerously > dedicated' form. I don't know the secret sauce used for the FreeBSD.org ones but I have=20 made my own using syslinux that boots an MFS off a FAT32 USB stick=20 (more useful to me than the UFS image one). This is the script I use.. http://www.gsoft.com.au/~doconnor/makeusb.sh Here be dragons, no warranty, etc.. =2D-=20 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 --nextPart3125385.gH9e7dHVF0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBLY/ii5ZPcIHs/zowRAk8pAJ94dBkFk6rNY0sR2FQMiGQvTZ5EzACgpCTa xonsBnmDsFyMdRF4HvQvZwU= =5r1J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3125385.gH9e7dHVF0--
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