From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Aug 3 17:07:39 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 103E59B2495 for ; Mon, 3 Aug 2015 17:07:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jd1008@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ig0-x22b.google.com (mail-ig0-x22b.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c05::22b]) (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 CD9FAB4E for ; Mon, 3 Aug 2015 17:07:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jd1008@gmail.com) Received: by igk11 with SMTP id 11so76073970igk.1 for ; Mon, 03 Aug 2015 10:07:38 -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=Wc3/N7CzAjr4EP9KhsygnzptWL4K5ksHGpLwB6sjxyw=; b=Rmil4NmAa6PZIvGRMr65BB5vPjcAvu7ciN+1Ra/A936YN7xoBbvYq7y0FEo/BCyUfx hRPM0HGMwIKeUm/9hWSpDpKxsPFpEkcUxx7w76ICKq8DzUJ9OglzhrpO1nxdWJGpD7ht W9NmboQp7lhjq9Vl+7OHfSX8Gu7J7tv46/MvKNn+eq1+A8N/qEhcQBRaOwSVkSoR7ema KwWD/IoB0Y1ehD3UHuBZILxGtL+9gPzNyWW4mLPoRTw6Ch4Q0gG4b6b6RLzD2kNp95G/ 1RsptKVcbkUrOrF7nfKSrXtjaX0m/hGV7EtzRIhSw41QaKQQl7Hjj6sSEIKfCi013ggp mO4g== X-Received: by 10.50.79.229 with SMTP id m5mr23710350igx.77.1438621658201; Mon, 03 Aug 2015 10:07:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([50.243.6.59]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id k19sm10498065iok.20.2015.08.03.10.07.37 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 03 Aug 2015 10:07:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <55BF9FE3.3030606@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2015 11:07:47 -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> <55BF9954.2020005@gmail.com> <55BF9F26.8030003@bananmonarki.se> In-Reply-To: <55BF9F26.8030003@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 17:07:39 -0000 On 08/03/2015 11:04 AM, Bernt Hansson wrote: > > > On 2015-08-03 18:39, jd1008 wrote: >> >> >> 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? > You tell me. I don't know. OK, so in your installation what do you see in /dev as far as disk devices that are raw (i.e. their name starts with r)?