From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 2 13:41:06 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 23E63704 for ; Sat, 2 May 2015 13:41:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E1DBB1B3E for ; Sat, 2 May 2015 13:41:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kabini1.local (rbn1-216-180-19-39.adsl.hiwaay.net [216.180.19.39]) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id t42Df3wu020085 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 2 May 2015 08:41:03 -0500 Message-ID: <5544D3EF.4090708@hiwaay.net> Date: Sat, 02 May 2015 08:47:18 -0453 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to restore a USB drive converted to bootable References: <5543FAA3.7050907@hiwaay.net> <2282619.EBxGjBUkQK@amd.asgard.uk> In-Reply-To: <2282619.EBxGjBUkQK@amd.asgard.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 May 2015 13:41:06 -0000 On 05/01/15 18:51, Dave wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Hmmmm .... bit of an issue for me, I have *no* windows boxen currently working, 1 VM on this box as it happens, but I don't have the networking going (yet) or other peripherals, so that's a hurdle .... I will looking yumi in some fashion, thanks :-). -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.