Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:28:44 -0500 From: Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net> To: Devin Teske <dteske@vicor.com> Cc: Paul Macdonald <paul@ifdnrg.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rescue cd with networkign and ssh! Message-ID: <AANLkTimoJ71nGgsj50f=boib-28m3v=WAOzdJcDBBO4g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1295637784.19170.77.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <4D383E51.9060800@ifdnrg.com> <1295551484.19170.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1295637784.19170.77.camel@localhost.localdomain>
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On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Devin Teske <dteske@vicor.com> wrote: > How to get this onto a thumb drive (using FreeBSD): > > Step 1: Download DruidBSD-1.0b1.iso > > Step 2: Insert your USB thumb drive. > > Step 3: Execute: camcontrol devlist > NOTE: find the `daN' device associated with your thumb drive > > Step 4: Execute: dd if=DruidBSD-1.0b1.iso of=/dev/da5 > NOTE: assuming that `da5' is your thumb drive > > Step 5: Execute: echo "p 2 0x0c * *" | fdisk -f - /dev/da5 > NOTE: again, assuming `da5' is your thumb drive > > Step 6: Execute: newfs_msdos /dev/da5s2 > NOTE: again, assuming `da5' is your thumb drive > > That's it. You now have a thumb drive with: > > a. An invisible boot partition for booting into DruidBSD > b. The remainder of unused space allocated as a DOS-compatible > partition, usable under Mac, Windows, Linux, and UNIX. > > When you plug the thumbdrive into any computer, it may appear to the > untrained eye that it's a blank thumb drive. Little do they know that > there's an invisible bootable partition chalk-full of utilities and a > full BSD distro. > > NOTE: If want a UFS partition instead of a W95 FAT LBA partition, change > the above "p 2 0x0c * *" to instead "p 2 0xa5 * *" and also change > "newfs_msdos" to instead "newfs". Sweet, this is exactly what I needed. >
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