Create Ultimate Boot CD USB Stick

Aropalo Tommi taropalo at kronometrix.org
Thu Oct 1 06:26:02 UTC 2015


Hi,

I don't know what is UBCD stick so I don't know if this helps with the
issue.
I have created bootable USB stick from FreeBSD-10.2-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso
 using script provided FreeBSD "releng/10.2/release/amd64/make-memstick.sh"

On 08/09/15 12:07, Jack L. wrote:
> There is a usb image file that you can download that is already in a native
> usb bootable format. Just dd the memstick.img to the usb stick and it works
> fine.
>
> On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 11:46 PM, Quartz <quartz at sneakertech.com> wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to create an UBCD stick from the ISO image without using
>>> Linux or Windows?
>>>
>> UBCD uses the SYSLINUX package (specifically ISOLINUX) to boot to the menu
>> and load all its modules. I have not tested this, but it may be possible to
>> download and run the SYSLINUX scripts directly under *BSD to create an
>> 'empty' usb stick that just boots to a dummy menu. If that works, you can
>> then just cp the config and modules from the UBCD ISO onto your stick
>> afterwards and be good to go. (SYSLINUX, ISOLINUX and PXELINUX all spawn an
>> identical environment, so you can literally copy and paste stuff between
>> them).
>>
>> Alternatively it may be possible to just dump the contents of the ISO to a
>> directory and use the SYSLINUX scripts to make a new hybrid ISO from that.
>> I have a feeling this might not work though, since there has to be a reason
>> UBCD didn't just use this feature themselves.
>>
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