7.3-BETA1 Available... [memstick.img?]

[Daniel O'Connor]

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
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