Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 21:24:19 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using the ISO releases on USB sticks. Message-ID: <20140914192419.GA1559@tiny-r269739> In-Reply-To: <lv4oa8$md4$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <4D32ABC9-D0D0-48D2-98D3-FF1D72A4261E@gmail.com> <6.0.0.22.2.20140910111010.052bfb38@mail.computinginnovations.com> <A9FD5744-C05D-43C3-815D-F253F9B76FB0@gmail.com> <B7FAE207-78AC-431F-9D33-B8C8C76BD4E1@gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1409141113370.27884@wonkity.com> <lv4oa8$md4$1@ger.gmane.org>
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El día Sunday, September 14, 2014 a las 02:55:04PM -0400, Michael Powell escribió: > Warren Block wrote: > > > On Sun, 14 Sep 2014, atar wrote: > > > >> Just wanted to know please why does the command 'dd > >> if=FreeBSD-i386-disc1.iso of=myUSB-stick' doesn't make the USB stick > >> bootable like it would does for CDROMs or DVDs? What's the difference > >> between CDROM and an USB? I always test new versions of FreeBSD on USB keys, right now while typing I run a 11-CURRENT with KDE ... and mutt as MUA booted from an USB key, while the disk in the laptop has still an older FreeBSD. The procedure to creat a boot-able USB key is simple: - make a file system on it - mount it to /mnt - do 'make installkernel' and 'make installworld' with DESTDIR=/mnt - enrich the file system in /mnt with some stuff (for example install packages into it with 'chroot /mnt pkg install ...') - unmount and reboot even better, if you do not use an USB key directly, but do all the above to a mdconfig file system (a file system in a normal plain file) and copy later the result with dd(1) to the real USB key; let me know if you need a detailed procedure of it. HIH matthias -- Matthias Apitz | /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign: E-mail: guru@unixarea.de | \ / - No HTML/RTF in E-mail WWW: http://www.unixarea.de/ | X - No proprietary attachments phone: +49-170-4527211 | / \ - Respect for open standards | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_Ribbon_Campaign
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