Date: Sat, 02 May 2015 08:47:18 -0453 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to restore a USB drive converted to bootable Message-ID: <5544D3EF.4090708@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <2282619.EBxGjBUkQK@amd.asgard.uk> References: <5543FAA3.7050907@hiwaay.net> <2282619.EBxGjBUkQK@amd.asgard.uk>
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On 05/01/15 18:51, Dave wrote: > On Friday 01 May 2015 17:20:10 William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >> I am about to do some OS installs (NetBSD & OpenBSD, as it happens) on >> boxen under construction. I would also like to use UBCD on a flash drive >> to memcheck those boxen prior to installation. If I prep a USB thumb >> drive as either a bootable UBCD drive or an over-the-WWW installer, I >> wipe out the drive for its original use. Is there a way to restore the >> drive back to its original functionality if I wanted to ? I will >> probably use this box, AMD64 FreeBSD 9.3R-p13, for the prepping, BTW, >> just to bring it sorta on-topic .... > one potentially heretical answer is to use yumi, available from pendrivelinux.com > > It's a Windows program which puts syslinux on a FAT32 pendrive and allows you to boot multiple images/ISOs from a menu while retaining the "normal" usage of the pendrive. The possible downside is you need a Windows computer to build and/or maintain it. > > There is a Linux version in development too but I've not looked at that for a while. > > Disclaimer. I have no connection to Yumi or pendrivelinux.com. Just a happy user for a number of years. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Hmmmm .... bit of an issue for me, I have *no* windows boxen currently working, 1 VM on this box as it happens, but I don't have the networking going (yet) or other peripherals, so that's a hurdle .... I will looking yumi in some fashion, thanks :-). -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.
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