Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 22:26:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Girish Venkatachalam <girish1729@yahoo.com> To: Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Girish Venkatachalam <girish1729@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Accessing device files over the network Message-ID: <20060820052629.59503.qmail@web35608.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060819202649.162de001@localhost>
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--- Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de> wrote: > Girish Venkatachalam <girish1729@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > I want to make a USB flash stick. But I have USB > ports > > only on my linux box. Whereas I would have to run > > bsdlabel from my FreeBSD box connected over the > > Ethernet. > > > > Any way out for me? :-) > > Prepare a file backed "disk" with the size of > the flash stick, copy it to the Linux box > and use dd to transfer it to the flash stick. > > mdconfig(8) and md(4) tell you the details. > > Fabian Thanks Fabian. Marvellous! I should have guessed that! Anyway this morning I was thinking under situations where this solution is not appropriate whether it was possible to access device files just by exporting the /dev filesystem thro' NFS? Will that work? Are there any gotchas? Thanks in advance. regards, Girish __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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