Date: Sat, 02 May 2015 00:44:54 +0100 From: Dave <freebsd01@dgmm.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to restore a USB drive converted to bootable Message-ID: <2282619.EBxGjBUkQK@amd.asgard.uk> In-Reply-To: <5543FAA3.7050907@hiwaay.net> References: <5543FAA3.7050907@hiwaay.net>
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On Friday 01 May 2015 17:20:10 William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > I am about to do some OS installs (NetBSD & OpenBSD, as it happens) on > boxen under construction. I would also like to use UBCD on a flash drive > to memcheck those boxen prior to installation. If I prep a USB thumb > drive as either a bootable UBCD drive or an over-the-WWW installer, I > wipe out the drive for its original use. Is there a way to restore the > drive back to its original functionality if I wanted to ? I will > probably use this box, AMD64 FreeBSD 9.3R-p13, for the prepping, BTW, > just to bring it sorta on-topic .... one potentially heretical answer is to use yumi, available from pendrivelinux.com It's a Windows program which puts syslinux on a FAT32 pendrive and allows you to boot multiple images/ISOs from a menu while retaining the "normal" usage of the pendrive. The possible downside is you need a Windows computer to build and/or maintain it. There is a Linux version in development too but I've not looked at that for a while. Disclaimer. I have no connection to Yumi or pendrivelinux.com. Just a happy user for a number of years.
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