From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 18 03:31:46 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 DAA24106564A for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 03:31:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx22.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 850DE8FC08 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 03:31:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 7563 invoked by uid 399); 18 Jan 2011 03:05:04 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO doug-optiplex.ka9q.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 18 Jan 2011 03:05:04 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4D35035E.6010304@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 19:05:02 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101210 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Glen Barber References: <4D34F8B3.1010803@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4D34F8B3.1010803@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 03:31:46 -0000 On 01/17/2011 18:19, Glen Barber wrote: > Hi, > > On 1/17/11 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. >> > > Thank you for looking into this, by the way. >> 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. > > IMHO, this sounds like the easiest option for the end-user. Agreed. I've used this, it's a nice tool. >> The questions: >> >> 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? > > I'm curious what the general consensus is on this last question myself. Well asking first is the bare minimum of politeness. And yes, I think we should be prepared to host it ourselves, and commit to the maintenance task that this implies. Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/