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From: Christian Laursen <xi@borderworlds.dk>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:55:18 +0200
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Subject: Re: Transfer CD image to USB memory stick?
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Per olof Ljungmark <peo@intersonic.se> writes:

> Could someone please point me to information how to achieve this? Have
> new hardware that lacks CD/floppy and want to install FreBSD...

I have a script that makes a disk image from a bootonly FreeBSD
install image.

I usually install grub on the USB memory stick and use memdisk from
the syslinux package to load the image. A sample menu entry for grub
is included in the script.

http://borderworlds.dk/~xi/iso2diskimage.pl

-- 
Christian Laursen