From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 21 14:37:13 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60E9D106566B for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:37:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-hackers@herveybayaustralia.com.au) Received: from mail.unitedinsong.com.au (mail.unitedinsong.com.au [150.101.178.33]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1348A8FC18 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:37:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au (laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au [192.168.0.182]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.unitedinsong.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 69F235C22 for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:50:45 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <4F69E651.3070105@herveybayaustralia.com.au> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:31:45 +1000 From: Da Rock User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111109 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <4F699391.9070804@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <4F69CFAC.7030501@gmail.com> <4F69D38E.9070805@herveybayaustralia.com.au> In-Reply-To: <4F69D38E.9070805@herveybayaustralia.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: iso2flash img X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:37:13 -0000 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.