Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:31:45 +1000 From: Da Rock <freebsd-hackers@herveybayaustralia.com.au> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iso2flash img Message-ID: <4F69E651.3070105@herveybayaustralia.com.au> In-Reply-To: <4F69D38E.9070805@herveybayaustralia.com.au> References: <4F699391.9070804@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <4F69CFAC.7030501@gmail.com> <4F69D38E.9070805@herveybayaustralia.com.au>
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On 03/21/12 23:11, Da Rock wrote: > On 03/21/12 22:55, Vitaly Magerya wrote: >> Da Rock wrote: >>> I googled a bit and found an old post here from Luigi >>> (http://osdir.com/ml/freebsd-hackers/2008-11/msg00245.html) which had a >>> script to do this, but I'm having trouble with it- is anyone familiar >>> with this? I'm on a bit of a deadline... >> Can't help you with that script (I failed to make it work too), but you >> might want to try to dd the iso image directly onto USB instead; there >> where talks that Ubuntu would support this starting at 11.10. > Interesting. I'll have to look further into how that would work. Also, > why wouldn't they just tell Mac users to do that? > > In the meantime I think I may have stumbled on the solution to the > script: In the midst of all the output it mentions "usage realpath > [-q] path". I wasn't 100% sure exactly what that meant, but I put the > full path to the iso and a full path to an img file and I *think* that > worked. I've yet to test the result; and I have no idea of the '-q' > option.... Nada. Booted it, and all I got was a blinking cursor, and I couldn't even type "hello world!" :( Back to square one... I guess I'll try a direct copy.
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