You've managed to make something that is really quite simple very complicated.
To format a USB stick into FAT:
It's a good idea to do this any time you buy a new flash drive.
To create a bootable USB stick first CD into the directory the .img file you want to work with is in. (I have also used this method to make a bootable USB stick from a Kali and a Debian .iso file.)
Now use the following command:
That's all there is to it. You almost had it the first time but were not using BSD naming scheme on your GhostBSD box.
I realize this is an older thread but wanted to clear that up.
Hello Everybody
I am planning to install Fedora core 8 on an extra PC I have; what I wanna do is to boot from a USB stick then install Fedora from an ISO image I already have via FTP. Could any one tell me how to create bootable USB Stick for Fedora as I already found how to install from FTP... (0 Replies)
I have a P-Series Machine running AIX 5.3, it has a USB Port on the front of the server, can I use a USB Stick on AIX platforms?? if so how..:rolleyes: (2 Replies)
I inserted a 8GB usb stick in a number of machine with FreeBSD 7.1, but the medium was not detected:
$ dmesg | grep MB
usable memory = 4263022592 (4065 MB)
avail memory = 4082540544 (3893 MB)
pci0: <serial bus, SMBus> at device 31.3 (no driver attached)
ad0: 238475MB <WDC WD2500BEVT-00ZCT0... (6 Replies)
Dummies questions, perfect for this. I cannot mount my idiotic usb stick on Slackware, I input the following on non-graphic mode as root:
Mount -t vfat /dev/sdc1/usbstick
usbstick is the folder i created for mounting my USB, the file system is FAT, and everytime I input that I get some kind... (2 Replies)
When mounting a USB stick or pen drive on a FreeBSD machine I always issue the following command:
mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt
Something I have always wondered is what the option msdosfs stands for and more importantly, why it is necessary. (7 Replies)
Hello,
i am using a solaris thinclient that tries to connecting to a terminalserver. (RDP) Everything works fine, but the usb redirection. If i put in a usb stick i always get 2 usb-drives mounted. If i look in /tmp/SUNWut/mnt/<name of the host> i see 2 devices. One with the name of the... (2 Replies)
Hey Guys
I have an Ubuntu CD and I was thinking of creating like a bootable hard drive with various OS so that I can just boot OSs with t drive and not require the CDs. I was just wondering is there a way I can do this, like have Ubuntu boot from a USB stick? If yes how is that possible(even if I... (3 Replies)
hi
Howto mount an USB stick under SCO 5.0.7?
BTW ist it possible to mount USB stick in the command line using 'tools' at the Boot: prompt from OpenServer Release 5.0.7 installation CD? (1 Reply)
I'd like to install the OS on my stick. I would like to be able to save my works there and install apps or customize the OS.
What can I do
Ps. At home I use an iMac, but in the school where I work there are only PC...
Ty (2 Replies)
I am trying to use a USB (Pen?) drive on Unixware 7.1.4.
The USB stick is in the machine and the machine recognises it when I enter usbprobe as follows:
Path - Address Description
-----------------------------
+++++++ BUS #2
0 - 1 - HUB "UHCI Root Hub"
1 - 2 - HID "Chicony Wireless Device"... (1 Reply)
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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD
gnop
GNOP(8) BSD System Manager's Manual GNOP(8)NAME
gnop -- control utility for NOP GEOM class
SYNOPSIS
gnop create [-v] [-e error] [-o offset] [-r rfailprob] [-s size] [-S secsize] [-w wfailprob] dev ...
gnop configure [-v] [-e error] [-r rfailprob] [-w wfailprob] prov ...
gnop destroy [-fv] prov ...
gnop reset [-v] prov ...
gnop list
gnop status
gnop load
gnop unload
DESCRIPTION
The gnop utility is used for setting up transparent providers on existing ones. Its main purpose is testing other GEOM classes, as it allows
forced provider removal and I/O error simulation with a given probability. It also gathers the following statistics: number of read
requests, number of write requests, number of bytes read and number of bytes written. In addition, it can be used as a good starting point
for implementing new GEOM classes.
The first argument to gnop indicates an action to be performed:
create Set up a transparent provider on the given devices. If the operation succeeds, the new provider should appear with name
/dev/<dev>.nop. The kernel module geom_nop.ko will be loaded if it is not loaded already.
configure Configure existing transparent provider. At the moment it is only used for changing failure probability.
destroy Turn off the given transparent providers.
reset Reset statistics for the given transparent providers.
list See geom(8).
status See geom(8).
load See geom(8).
unload See geom(8).
Additional options:
-e error Specifies the error number to return on failure.
-f Force the removal of the specified provider.
-o offset Where to begin on the original provider.
-r rfailprob Specifies read failure probability in percent.
-s size Size of the transparent provider.
-S secsize Sector size of the transparent provider.
-w wfailprob Specifies write failure probability in percent.
-v Be more verbose.
SYSCTL VARIABLES
The following sysctl(8) variables can be used to control the behavior of the NOP GEOM class. The default value is shown next to each vari-
able.
kern.geom.nop.debug: 0
Debug level of the NOP GEOM class. This can be set to a number between 0 and 2 inclusive. If set to 0, minimal debug information is
printed. If set to 1, basic debug information is logged along with the I/O requests that were returned as errors. If set to 2, the
maximum amount of debug information is printed including all I/O requests.
EXIT STATUS
Exit status is 0 on success, and 1 if the command fails.
EXAMPLES
The following example shows how to create a transparent provider for disk /dev/da0 with 50% write failure probability, and how to destroy it.
gnop create -v -w 50 da0
gnop destroy -v da0.nop
The traffic statistics for the given transparent providers can be obtained with the list command. The example below shows the number of
bytes written with newfs(8):
gnop create da0
newfs /dev/da0.nop
gnop list
SEE ALSO geom(4), geom(8)HISTORY
The gnop utility appeared in FreeBSD 5.3.
AUTHORS
Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
BSD April 14, 2013 BSD