From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Aug 3 16:39:40 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BB459B2ACF for ; Mon, 3 Aug 2015 16:39:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jd1008@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ig0-x229.google.com (mail-ig0-x229.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c05::229]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 25763D5F for ; Mon, 3 Aug 2015 16:39:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jd1008@gmail.com) Received: by igbpg9 with SMTP id pg9so59408917igb.0 for ; Mon, 03 Aug 2015 09:39:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=MiSwCciGS7dQSkTjO+2+kYdI+A8TnqW+GhiJruGuSXQ=; b=gsiDkwKKv2lsVSsoLaAeJowQFnlfzmts7CBVNXJz5hgrnyD2vZx/yMNFj7FmRpRkUx jD3Jqc90P8kKYnZpNiM2GivIgInnqA24sQcEA5ThPmQMhq3s/6tMiuY2ccK/w+vAVp3a YzW5Ube6OF7bYKqfNPdF33IfgFwHyj8CTACkAlLNo0HiplGtqtN+J+LIVd17h2wjAmTq M5uvph4XdGxO9JvWvnwG81mfQ0oGL6nHJOb9e3Rn5oGL9yxt0pEAOxDollSq/JHXwQAy Feo10jLRyz80T6DsWYpjddysudLXO+TOT7YzJYd6eIvcs0GjEsKtVgUUM6RShlm39kNj EcFQ== X-Received: by 10.50.33.82 with SMTP id p18mr23225598igi.8.1438619979480; Mon, 03 Aug 2015 09:39:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([50.243.6.59]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id a133sm6482889ioe.34.2015.08.03.09.39.38 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 03 Aug 2015 09:39:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <55BF9954.2020005@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2015 10:39:48 -0600 From: jd1008 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB stick and some help with it. References: <55BF6AA0.2030802@bananmonarki.se> <55BF8824.9050803@gmail.com> <55BF8D65.6010404@bananmonarki.se> <55BF9024.6000409@gmail.com> <55BF9522.3@bananmonarki.se> <55BF964B.7080400@gmail.com> <55BF9817.4070409@bananmonarki.se> In-Reply-To: <55BF9817.4070409@bananmonarki.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2015 16:39:40 -0000 On 08/03/2015 10:34 AM, Bernt Hansson wrote: > > > On 2015-08-03 18:26, jd1008 wrote: >> >> >> On 08/03/2015 10:21 AM, Bernt Hansson wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 2015-08-03 18:00, jd1008 wrote: >>>> Are you invoking the command as root or regular user? >>> >>> 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. >> > There is no rda* on FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE-p15 #0 So how will a user write to the raw device??