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Date:      Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:45:06 +1030
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>, Ken Smith <kensmith@buffalo.edu>
Subject:   Re: 7.3-BETA1 Available... [memstick.img?]
Message-ID:  <201001301945.14487.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20100130164546.K46992@sola.nimnet.asn.au>
References:  <1264828108.4948.18.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu> <20100130164546.K46992@sola.nimnet.asn.au>

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On Sat, 30 Jan 2010, Ian Smith wrote:
> My search for information on the particular recipe/s used to make the
> 8.0-R memstick images has proven fruitless so far, despite several
> useful suggestions on ways to make various other sorts of bootable
> USB stick images. =A0So far they seem to have been made out-of-band,
> somehow?
>
> My particular interest is in putting DVD release/s onto a 4GB(+)
> stick, hopefully on bootable slices rather than 'dangerously
> dedicated' form.

I don't know the secret sauce used for the FreeBSD.org ones but I have=20
made my own using syslinux that boots an MFS off a FAT32 USB stick=20
(more useful to me than the UFS image one).

This is the script I use..
http://www.gsoft.com.au/~doconnor/makeusb.sh

Here be dragons, no warranty, etc..

=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
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