I am working on both, two machines, one with GhostBSD, the second (today) PCBSD. So I tried a lot with the command line gpart(8) like this.
The following steps had to be done, with some success just to get a simple usb-stick to be seen and formatted.
It is about to create a bootable usb-stick with a linux iso for an UEFI machine, to be created on that very one BSD machines.
I tried
with no success.
This one shows at least what has been done so far
But any further gpart command results in
It is an iso of about 795MB, nothing special.
Once again creating the drive (I guess not the slice on it)
Make it e UEFI memory stick of a certain size (I took 820MB)
What comes now is not what I want to!!!! But it is part of that instruction.......
THIS IS WHAT I DON'T WANT FOR SURE, I AM AIMING FOR THAT DISTRO MENTIONED ABOVE!
So should I type like this????
Here comes a sample how to create a boot.iso (note: I am trying to copy an .iso)
This is taken from Disk Setup On FreeBSD
I did not yet dare to haul it all over, thats why I am asking here.
and finally making the ISO image.
I will get me another coffee, later on I will try again the part. This machine does not offer a CD-drive, so it has to be done the hard way. Or I will go to burn a DVD or CD in a netcafe. And last but not least, I want to erase a usb-stick that is already a bootable-usb-drive, but this doesn't work at all with gpart(8).
after a while I came across not only the man pages but some other explanation, that should help, but it doesn't
First create a partition
then having a look
slicing and dicing a partition
This is all I get from the device
After reading that one first delete the slice and then destroy it, even the GEOM label, I did not succeed doing so at all.
and plugging in that very specific usb-stick again and typing
but fdisk and gpart(8) are not the solution.
later on
unmounting the drive, as usually done in gui of Gpart I typed (note I am on the root terminal command line)
great, but it does not accept
doing this (as mentioned above)
getting this
This remains unsolved, on the list to be done the hard way, just learned that I first delete a slice and afterwards I destroy it. Another laptop and a DVD saved my day. If I find a way to create a bootable usb-stick from a BSD machine to set up a linux image, I put it here.
Last edited by 1in10; 03-29-2016 at 07:12 PM..
Reason: remains unsolved, but on the list to get things done
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