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Operating Systems BSD Bootable usb-stick, need help, sos Post 302969703 by hicksd8 on Saturday 26th of March 2016 07:30:41 AM

03-26-2016

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There's quite of lot of knowledge needed to create a bootable USB stick manually from the command line. I've forgotten more than I can remember about that because nowadays I always cheat.

Do you want to know how to do this manually as a learning exercise or do you just want to get it done anyway you can?

Do you have a Windows machine available to you?

I see the media you are starting with is an iso and you can't just dd an iso image to a USB stick and expect it to boot.

My preference would be to put the iso file on a Windows platform and then download (free) a copy of Rufus. Tell Rufus that it's an iso file as input and it will do the whole thing for you.

If you don't have a Windows box take a look at Unetbootin. That will do the same thing on unix/Linux.

Of course, the bios of your machine that you want to boot from USB must support that and have that function enabled but I guess you already know that.

It depends what you want/need to learn about this but, as I say, I just cheat. Other members on here might be able to tell you how to do it manually but I can't remember all the details.

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