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Date:      Tue, 8 Sep 2015 02:07:00 -0700
From:      "Jack L." <xxjack12xx@gmail.com>
To:        Quartz <quartz@sneakertech.com>
Cc:        Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it>,  "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Create Ultimate Boot CD USB Stick
Message-ID:  <CALeGphxkKBEWv7grJCFFANnX9cy%2B%2BE1zTSsn8oTuB-xPP4%2BEKg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <55EE8445.9070901@sneakertech.com>
References:  <55EDBF5A.9010808@netfence.it> <55EE8445.9070901@sneakertech.com>

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There is a usb image file that you can download that is already in a native
usb bootable format. Just dd the memstick.img to the usb stick and it works
fine.

On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 11:46 PM, Quartz <quartz@sneakertech.com> wrote:

> Is there a way to create an UBCD stick from the ISO image without using
>> Linux or Windows?
>>
>
> UBCD uses the SYSLINUX package (specifically ISOLINUX) to boot to the menu
> and load all its modules. I have not tested this, but it may be possible to
> download and run the SYSLINUX scripts directly under *BSD to create an
> 'empty' usb stick that just boots to a dummy menu. If that works, you can
> then just cp the config and modules from the UBCD ISO onto your stick
> afterwards and be good to go. (SYSLINUX, ISOLINUX and PXELINUX all spawn an
> identical environment, so you can literally copy and paste stuff between
> them).
>
> Alternatively it may be possible to just dump the contents of the ISO to a
> directory and use the SYSLINUX scripts to make a new hybrid ISO from that.
> I have a feeling this might not work though, since there has to be a reason
> UBCD didn't just use this feature themselves.
>
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