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Date:      Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:08:35 +0800
From:      Fbsd1 <fbsd1@a1poweruser.com>
To:        Randi Harper <randi@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Mark Wallbank <mrkwllbnk@googlemail.com>
Subject:   Re: Install from a USB Pen
Message-ID:  <4A5D6453.3060100@a1poweruser.com>
In-Reply-To: <e277d6c80907140154u1b511f00ua4147a075d12b20b@mail.gmail.com>
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> 
> ... or you could just download an official image instead of going to all 
> of that trouble. Check the FTP site, there's a memstick.img if you're 
> down for using with 8 instead of 7. There are currently three PRs about 
> this, and I recently took ownership of them. Filing duplicate bug 
> reports doesn't "get attention", it's just annoying and it makes trying 
> to improve sysinstall that much more difficult because I'll have to 
> spend more time closing these duplicates and less time fixing problems. 
> There has been an email that stated there is USB install support in 
> sysinstall as of 8.0 BETA1, and USB livefs support as of 8.0 BETA2. The 
> PRs for USB support in sysinstall will be updated and closed soon. Don't 
> open new ones.
> 
> You're welcome! :D
> 
> -- randi

What are the instructions for using this 8.0 memstick.img?
What raw size memstick is needed?
Is the 8.0 memstick.img the same content as the cd1 disk?




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