Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:19:31 -0500 From: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fenestrating the Handbook memstick section Message-ID: <4D34F8B3.1010803@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1101171342240.13096@wonkity.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1101171342240.13096@wonkity.com>
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Hi, On 1/17/11 8:41 PM, Warren Block wrote: > Currently, the Handbook only shows how to create a FreeBSD install > memstick by using dd(1). This leaves the Windows crowd unaddressed. > > I've done some searching for a Windows utility to write memory sticks > that is freely available and simple to use. > Thank you for looking into this, by the way. > There's a dd for Windows (http://www.chrysocome.net/dd), but it's > difficult to use due to target names that are hard to associate with > drive letters, and just plain complex. For example, > \\?\Device\Harddisk5\Partition0. > > There's http://www.winimage.com/winimage.htm, which is general-purpose > and shareware. > > Finally, there's https://launchpad.net/win32-image-writer, which is > Image Writer for Windows or win32diskimager depending on how you look. > Done by the Ubuntu folks. GPLV2. Easy to use. The best option I've > found so far. IMHO, this sounds like the easiest option for the end-user. > The questions: > > Is there a better Windows utility for writing a memory stick image? > > If we recommend Image Writer for Windows, seems like it would be polite > to ask the project before taking advantage of their download capacity. > Or would it be better to have a copy hosted on a FreeBSD server? I'm curious what the general consensus is on this last question myself. Cheers, -- Glen Barber
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