From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 18 02:00:18 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D6141065670 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 02:00:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0931D8FC13 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 02:00:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p0I1fmuH016527 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 18:41:48 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) with ESMTP id p0I1fmUd016524 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 18:41:48 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 18:41:48 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: doc@freebsd.org Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Mon, 17 Jan 2011 18:41:48 -0700 (MST) Cc: Subject: Fenestrating the Handbook memstick section X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 02:00:18 -0000 Currently, the Handbook only shows how to create a FreeBSD install memstick by using dd(1). This leaves the Windows crowd unaddressed. I've done some searching for a Windows utility to write memory sticks that is freely available and simple to use. There's a dd for Windows (http://www.chrysocome.net/dd), but it's difficult to use due to target names that are hard to associate with drive letters, and just plain complex. For example, \\?\Device\Harddisk5\Partition0. There's http://www.winimage.com/winimage.htm, which is general-purpose and shareware. Finally, there's https://launchpad.net/win32-image-writer, which is Image Writer for Windows or win32diskimager depending on how you look. Done by the Ubuntu folks. GPLV2. Easy to use. The best option I've found so far. The questions: Is there a better Windows utility for writing a memory stick image? If we recommend Image Writer for Windows, seems like it would be polite to ask the project before taking advantage of their download capacity. Or would it be better to have a copy hosted on a FreeBSD server?