From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 25 23:24:22 2011 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 7E1271065673 for ; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 23:24:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@chillt.de) Received: from dd16434.kasserver.com (dd16434.kasserver.com [85.13.137.111]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B2928FC16 for ; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 23:24:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from taiko.lan (ppp-197-43.21-151.libero.it [151.21.43.197]) by dd16434.kasserver.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5B44E188606E; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 01:24:21 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4DB60274.60701@chillt.de> Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 01:23:32 +0200 From: Bartosz Fabianowski User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110309 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Torfinn Ingolfsen References: <4DB4589B.2020909@ksu.ru> <4DB45D6C.20203@chillt.de> <20110424182456.9DD03589@server.theusgroup.com> <4DB46ED4.2010500@chillt.de> <20110425004818.GA22579@icarus.home.lan> <4DB51F27.5010508@chillt.de> <20110425184728.C73992@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <4DB56CDA.50504@chillt.de> <20110425232429.N85801@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <4DB57F45.4080107@chillt.de> <20110425141643.GA38380@icarus.home.lan> <4DB583E9.8080507@chillt.de> <20110425234117.d1476c95.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <20110425234117.d1476c95.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: System extremely slow under light load 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: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 23:24:22 -0000 > Have you tried just using dd to copy the iso image of a Ubuntu / Linux > LiveCD to a suitably sized USB memory stick? > It has worked for me in the past. As per Mehmet's tip, I did just that with a Debian image. If it works for Ubuntu images as well then I really wonder why the only documented way is via Unetbootin. - Bartosz