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To: swjatoslaw gerus <milstar2@eml.cc>
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Subject: Re: Fwd: system -invalid argument 1m   #### dd
 if=FreeBSD-11-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/sdb1 bs=1M  conv=sync
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On Tue, 27 Dec 2016, swjatoslaw gerus wrote:

> dd if=FreeBSD-11-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/sdb1 bs=1M
> conv=sync

This will not work.  The memstick image contains partitioning 
information and cannot be placed inside a partition itself (sdb1 is the 
first MBR partition on sdb).