--- Fabian Keil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Girish Venkatachalam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I want to make a USB flash stick. But I have USB > ports > > only on my linux box. Whereas I would have to run > > bsdlabel from my FreeBSD box connected over the > > Ethernet. > > > > Any way out for me? :-) > > Prepare a file backed "disk" with the size of > the flash stick, copy it to the Linux box > and use dd to transfer it to the flash stick. > > mdconfig(8) and md(4) tell you the details. > > Fabian Thanks Fabian. Marvellous! I should have guessed that! Anyway this morning I was thinking under situations where this solution is not appropriate whether it was possible to access device files just by exporting the /dev filesystem thro' NFS? Will that work? Are there any gotchas? Thanks in advance. regards, Girish __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"