Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2015 19:06:12 -0400 From: "Michael B. Eichorn" <ike@michaeleichorn.com> To: Bernt Hansson <bah@bananmonarki.se>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB stick and some help with it. Message-ID: <1438643172.1420.11.camel@michaeleichorn.com> In-Reply-To: <55BFF081.5050703@bananmonarki.se> References: <55BF6AA0.2030802@bananmonarki.se> <55BFAC5D.5070309@sneakertech.com> <55BFB064.60507@gmail.com> <55BFF081.5050703@bananmonarki.se>
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On Tue, 2015-08-04 at 00:51 +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: > > On 2015-08-03 20:18, jd1008 wrote: > > > > On 08/03/2015 12:01 PM, Quartz wrote: > > > Can you do a quick sanity check and see if the stick can be wiped > > > on > > > a different machine? Or perhaps the same machine by booting off a > > > > > > live linux cd. Being on old flash drive there's a possibility > > > it's > > > just up and died due to wear and the problem isn't due to FreeBSD > > > at > > > all. > > I second Quartz's suggestion. > > Just download a live linux cd, such as: > > http://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/knoppix-dvd/KNOPPIX_V7.4.1DVD-2014 > > -09-15-EN.iso > > > > along with checksum files: > > http://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/knoppix-dvd/KNOPPIX_V7.4.1DVD-2014 > > -09-15-EN.iso.md5 > > > > http://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/knoppix-dvd/KNOPPIX_V7.4.1DVD-2014 > > -09-15-EN.iso.sha1 > > > > > > Once you burn it to dvd, boot it, and use the gui to launch a > > terminal > > (icon for it is at bottom left bar). > > > My burner can no longer burn dvds only plain cds. Arch Linux still fits on a 700MiB CD. https://www.archlinux.org/download/ The CD boots into a live environment as root. so you can skip: > > then you run > > su - > > And start here: > > then you insert the usb stick. > > Assuming there is only one HD in the machine, the stick will be > > named /dev/sdb If more than one HD in the machine, say 4 HD (sda, > > sdb, sdc, sdd), then > > the stick will be sde. > > > > Run > > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd? bs=1M > > where ? is b or c or d ...etc depending on how many HD's you have > > in > > the system. > > You do not need to specify the count, because dd will stop when the > > > > stick is full of > > zeros. > > > > Once done, unplug the stick, and reinsert it. > > > > then run the command fdisk /dev/sd? (? as explained above) > > > > create 1 partition. > > set it's type to whatever you want. I usually use the letter c as > > the > > type > > to mean fat lba. > > > > To finish, type the command w to the fdisk session > > and you are done. > > > > Now type fdisk -l /dev/sd? > > > > and you will see the drive has 1 partition. > > > > now create a filesystem on your drive: > > > > mkfs -t vfat /dev/sd?1 (again ? as explained above). > > > > type the command > > reboot > > and the dvd drive will get ejected. > > press the return key to boot into your normal HD. > > > > > > The stick is now useable and mountable. > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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