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Date:      Mon, 03 Aug 2015 10:26:51 -0600
From:      jd1008 <jd1008@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: USB stick and some help with it.
Message-ID:  <55BF964B.7080400@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <55BF9522.3@bananmonarki.se>
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On 08/03/2015 10:21 AM, Bernt Hansson wrote:
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> On 2015-08-03 18:00, jd1008 wrote:
>> Are you invoking the command as root or regular user?
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> As root.
If your installation cannot write to the raw device, then
it  is either a bug or .....????

One thing that you have to be aware of is that if you
dd an iso image to a flash, then afterwards, the OS
will always assume it is a non-writable cdrom; that
is until you dd /dev/zero into the raw device while
it is not mounted.




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