From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 18 03:14:26 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 7C78A106564A for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 03:14:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iw0-f182.google.com (mail-iw0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41DAD8FC14 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 03:14:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn39 with SMTP id 39so5302758iwn.13 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 19:14:25 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=W5xj1KAnNE3jJp72P0hzDvXW3G1LspoM3B3+vfQuDoA=; b=ZdQ0iR4z78tCZMTmu+K9jBYTZKMFXFAzXAmEGBs+WEVb5ywb1Lzj6LoC6AS48EOqz5 QADy3M4a4DOTXV79dKkhcITX9k/JVba/vielfb8pZyw3rMsR5qNFTfRVwe0/JNs+cCkj QSp1QHv7hcEnSHhAGx9vV19sEImIAbWYYQk8Q= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=G0efr4cXslDksW/zkA4NaNeFbYC+YHaS82r3rmKv6gQoUYomBNwzLO9S0WBx8JK1ad nSDHU5oRq6QK356OgTjNDhTZ4OdIPaj8blcPxmmHt4gzJ9dh7zYaTZ4VaspHbNgcIT4z Yqnxl3E86W3dZuEvHzYQQWxd8Z9zvyzOCX5ac= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.206.206 with SMTP id fv14mr5218332ibb.75.1295318584746; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 18:43:04 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.231.79.197 with HTTP; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 18:43:04 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:43:04 -0500 Message-ID: From: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk To: Warren Block Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 03:14:26 -0000 On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Warren Block wrote: > 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? > From http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-manual-en_How_to_install_SystemRescueCd_on_an_USB-stick the following links may be obtained : http://www.linuxliveusb.com/ http://www.linuxliveusb.com/en/about/license ( GPLv3 ) http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ ( GPLv2+ ) ( Not recommended by SysRescCD ) Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk