From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 20 04:30:10 2009 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 49BA610656A7 for ; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 04:30:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sektie@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f204.google.com (mail-qy0-f204.google.com [209.85.221.204]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED1F08FC17 for ; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 04:30:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sektie@gmail.com) Received: by qyk42 with SMTP id 42so1604699qyk.3 for ; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:30:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type; bh=SQy9aA4Ueu9Z8bk57XXm7XWcdynFs5FYlDeun/+tZpw=; b=R0ZV4oIeSNAKWL22DHzyKvNLKb9HHplmAYsHlldxosMtEmn9hqywZsrIUD82NGq//1 7Ce7z2c8D0saO3F8KNr5rzAFa8KnF9g1LUm3TKYRMIvTnvPCtcowdQ5sNZcfJtYDCg5Z NkthAPMNCCOF/C0OcBxn3feNOShARFnPmeZFw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; b=b1UTkcr61AEXJHpvF5yTJnr7j4KFxKOE/8LyNiY9Ek8wcB8rfoBjbB0F2Hp40htot7 AQNnLqQnqBrYvVEe7RTkSb1VeGccxBBk41T//LM8dGHGA5Er4tPnQ/6Qk2IBW+2hqUuu mUNdyD8dVS1B4XcQH0GKRC1rCN+QzsX1J1bgI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: sektie@gmail.com Received: by 10.229.85.4 with SMTP id m4mr719724qcl.55.1248064209213; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:30:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4A614478.5080400@a1poweruser.com> References: <4A5BEABB.6070802@a1poweruser.com> <4A5D6453.3060100@a1poweruser.com> <4A5E876C.8000804@a1poweruser.com> <4A602684.4030205@a1poweruser.com> <4A614478.5080400@a1poweruser.com> Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:30:09 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: c4b09d4efa39b97f Message-ID: From: Randi Harper To: Fbsd1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install from a USB Pen 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, 20 Jul 2009 04:30:10 -0000 On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Fbsd1 wrote: > > Took 3 times longer to download the 8.0-BETA1-i386-memstick.img that to > download the 8.0-BETA1-i386-disc1.iso. I suggest you look into another > method of creating the memstick.img so it downloads faster. dd does no > compression of the data. -rw-r--r-- 1 110 1002 346845184 Jul 16 02:04 8.0-BETA2-i386-disc1.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 110 1002 917391360 Jul 16 02:00 8.0-BETA2-i386-memstick.img Note the filesize. This may be the reason it took 3 times longer. Just a guess. > Using a 8gb memstick as the target to install 8.0 on took 2 times longer > than disc1 cd installing to same 8gb memstick. Might have something to do with the amount of data being written. Again, just a guess. Are you sure it wasn't 3 times longer? > Selected the [STANDARD/KERNEL DEVELOPER] distribution, It completed > successfully, but the new 8.0 8gb memstick was not recognized as bootable. I don't know why that's the case as I am unable to reproduce this problem, but if the memstick.img is <1GB, why are you using an 8GB memstick instead of the 2GB? > Here is a script i have used in the past to convert the disc1.iso to > bootable memstick. Maybe its better to add this script to the place where > 8.0-BETA1-i386-disc1.iso is located in place of the memstick.img. > That way the 3 times larger memstick.img is not needed any more. No. If you took a look at the contents of the memstick, you'd realize it's not just a copy of disc1. It also includes livefs. This is probably why the memstick.img is so much bigger. :D -- randi