From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 23 05:09:31 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 190E9106564A; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 05:09:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd1@a1poweruser.com) Received: from mail-03.name-services.com (mail-03.name-services.com [69.64.155.195]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F13A88FC16; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 05:09:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd1@a1poweruser.com) Received: from [10.0.10.3] ([202.69.174.13]) by mail-03.name-services.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:00:30 -0700 Message-ID: <4A67EE68.8020405@a1poweruser.com> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:00:24 +0800 From: Fbsd1 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Randi Harper References: <4A5BEABB.6070802@a1poweruser.com> <4A5D6453.3060100@a1poweruser.com> <4A5E876C.8000804@a1poweruser.com> <4A602684.4030205@a1poweruser.com> <4A614478.5080400@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 Jul 2009 05:00:30.0858 (UTC) FILETIME=[80BD16A0:01CA0B52] X-Sender: fbsd1@a1poweruser.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install from a USB Pen X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 05:09:31 -0000 Randi Harper wrote: > On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Fbsd1 wrote: > >> Took 3 times longer to download the 8.0-BETA1-i386-memstick.img that to >> download the 8.0-BETA1-i386-disc1.iso. I suggest you look into another >> method of creating the memstick.img so it downloads faster. dd does no >> compression of the data. > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 110 1002 346845184 Jul 16 02:04 > 8.0-BETA2-i386-disc1.iso > -rw-r--r-- 1 110 1002 917391360 Jul 16 02:00 > 8.0-BETA2-i386-memstick.img > > Note the filesize. This may be the reason it took 3 times longer. Just a > guess. > > >> Using a 8gb memstick as the target to install 8.0 on took 2 times longer >> than disc1 cd installing to same 8gb memstick. > > > Might have something to do with the amount of data being written. Again, > just a guess. Are you sure it wasn't 3 times longer? > > >> Selected the [STANDARD/KERNEL DEVELOPER] distribution, It completed >> successfully, but the new 8.0 8gb memstick was not recognized as bootable. > > > I don't know why that's the case as I am unable to reproduce this problem, > but if the memstick.img is <1GB, why are you using an 8GB memstick instead > of the 2GB? > > >> Here is a script i have used in the past to convert the disc1.iso to >> bootable memstick. Maybe its better to add this script to the place where >> 8.0-BETA1-i386-disc1.iso is located in place of the memstick.img. >> That way the 3 times larger memstick.img is not needed any more. > > > No. If you took a look at the contents of the memstick, you'd realize it's > not just a copy of disc1. It also includes livefs. This is probably why the > memstick.img is so much bigger. :D > > -- randi > _______________________________________________ > 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" > > Instead of combining disc1 and livefs into a single memstick.img would't it be better to make 2 memstick images. One of disc1 and one of livefs. This matches the standard all ready in place.