Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:43:04 -0500 From: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fenestrating the Handbook memstick section Message-ID: <AANLkTik==XNEDebrvUv%2B=1otvwD-nUcbF9Nsz%2B55cOrH@mail.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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On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> 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. > > 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. > > 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? > From http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-manual-en_How_to_install_SystemRescueCd_on_an_USB-stick the following links may be obtained : http://www.linuxliveusb.com/ http://www.linuxliveusb.com/en/about/license ( GPLv3 ) http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ ( GPLv2+ ) ( Not recommended by SysRescCD ) Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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