On Sat, 30 Jan 2010, Ian Smith wrote: > My search for information on the particular recipe/s used to make the > 8.0-R memstick images has proven fruitless so far, despite several > useful suggestions on ways to make various other sorts of bootable > USB stick images. So far they seem to have been made out-of-band, > somehow? > > My particular interest is in putting DVD release/s onto a 4GB(+) > stick, hopefully on bootable slices rather than 'dangerously > dedicated' form.
I don't know the secret sauce used for the FreeBSD.org ones but I have made my own using syslinux that boots an MFS off a FAT32 USB stick (more useful to me than the UFS image one). This is the script I use.. http://www.gsoft.com.au/~doconnor/makeusb.sh Here be dragons, no warranty, etc.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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