From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 30 09:15:29 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5F72106568B for ; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:15:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2653B8FC16 for ; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:15:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp121-45-156-224.lns6.adl6.internode.on.net [121.45.156.224]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o0U9FLBg031685 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:45:22 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:45:06 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <1264828108.4948.18.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu> <20100130164546.K46992@sola.nimnet.asn.au> In-Reply-To: <20100130164546.K46992@sola.nimnet.asn.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3125385.gH9e7dHVF0"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201001301945.14487.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -1.705 () AWL,BAYES_00,RDNS_DYNAMIC X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Ian Smith , Ken Smith Subject: Re: 7.3-BETA1 Available... [memstick.img?] X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:15:29 -0000 --nextPart3125385.gH9e7dHVF0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart3125385.gH9e7dHVF0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBLY/ii5ZPcIHs/zowRAk8pAJ94dBkFk6rNY0sR2FQMiGQvTZ5EzACgpCTa xonsBnmDsFyMdRF4HvQvZwU= =5r1J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3125385.gH9e7dHVF0--