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Old 07-23-2012
Freebsd live usb

Hello. I'm going to make freebsd live usb based on FreeBSD-8.3-RELEASE-i386-livefs.iso. The iso is 257 Megabytes, but after i copy its content to usb drive its volume increases to 971 Megabytes. I tried different methods of copying (tar,cp,cpio) but with the same result. Could anyone help?
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UCHCOM(4)						   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						 UCHCOM(4)

NAME
uchcom -- WinChipHead CH341/CH340 serial adapter driver SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file: device usb device ucom device uchcom Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5): uchcom_load="YES" DESCRIPTION
The uchcom driver provides support for the WinChipHead CH341/CH340 USB-to-RS-232 Bridge chip. The device is accessed through the ucom(4) driver which makes it behave like a tty(4). HARDWARE
The uchcom driver supports the following adapters: o HL USB-RS232 SEE ALSO
tty(4), ucom(4), usb(4) HISTORY
The uchcom driver first appeared in NetBSD. The first FreeBSD release to include it was FreeBSD 8.0. BUGS
Actually, this chip seems unable to drive other than 8 data bits and 1 stop bit line. BSD
November 20, 2011 BSD