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Cc: Girish Venkatachalam <girish1729@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Accessing device files over the network
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Girish Venkatachalam <girish1729@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I want to make a USB flash stick. But I have USB ports
> only on my linux box. Whereas I would have to run
> bsdlabel from my FreeBSD box connected over the
> Ethernet.
>=20
> Any way out for me? :-)

Prepare a file backed "disk" with the size of
the flash stick, copy it to the Linux box
and use dd to transfer it to the flash stick.

mdconfig(8) and md(4) tell you the details.

Fabian
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http://www.fabiankeil.de/

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