Monday, April 08, 2013

How to create FreeBSD memstick in running FreeBSD system

# make 2GB image file: dd if=/dev/zero of=./memstick.img bs=1m count=2000 # load image as virtual disk device: mdconfig -a -t vnode -f ./memstick.img -u 0 fdisk -iI /dev/md0 bsdlabel -wB /dev/md0s1 newfs /dev/md0s1a mount /dev/md0s1a /mnt cd /usr/src make installkernel installworld DESTDIR=/mnt umount /mnt # insert memstick now, assuming it will be /dev/da0... # raw copy virtual disk content to memstick. dd if=/dev/md0 of=/dev/da0 bs=1m

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