faq4.html addition: making USB install media

2013-09-28 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
The attached diff adds a new subsection about creating bootable USB media to the install faq, hopefully useful and correct. - Peter -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the

Re: faq4.html addition: making USB install media

2013-09-28 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2013/09/28 10:46, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > The attached diff adds a new subsection about creating bootable USB media to > the install faq, hopefully useful and correct. How widely does this actually work? This method is common on Linux distributions but they have a specially prepared par

faq4.html USB boot update

2013-09-28 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
A few sips of coffee later I realize that rsd0 is likely your hard disk, change the dd to USB drive example to reference rsd1 instead, making foot shooting incrementally less likely. Updated diff attached. - Peter -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://b

Re: faq4.html addition: making USB install media

2013-09-28 Thread Nick Holland
On 09/28/13 05:22, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2013/09/28 10:46, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: >> The attached diff adds a new subsection about creating bootable USB media to >> the install faq, hopefully useful and correct. > > How widely does this actually work? > > This method is common on Lin