Fenestrating the Handbook memstick section

[Mehmet Erol Sanliturk]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:

> Currently, the Handbook only shows how to create a FreeBSD install memstick
> by using dd(1).  This leaves the Windows crowd unaddressed.
>
> I've done some searching for a Windows utility to write memory sticks that
> is freely available and simple to use.
>
> There's a dd for Windows (http://www.chrysocome.net/dd), but it's
> difficult to use due to target names that are hard to associate with drive
> letters, and just plain complex.  For example,
> \\?\Device\Harddisk5\Partition0.
>
> There's http://www.winimage.com/winimage.htm, which is general-purpose and
> shareware.
>
> Finally, there's https://launchpad.net/win32-image-writer, which is Image
> Writer for Windows or win32diskimager depending on how you look. Done by the
> Ubuntu folks.  GPLV2.  Easy to use.  The best option I've found so far.
>
> The questions:
>
> Is there a better Windows utility for writing a memory stick image?
>
> If we recommend Image Writer for Windows, seems like it would be polite to
> ask the project before taking advantage of their download capacity. Or would
> it be better to have a copy hosted on a FreeBSD server?
>



From


http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page
http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-manual-en_How_to_install_SystemRescueCd_on_an_USB-stick

the following links may be obtained :

http://www.linuxliveusb.com/
http://www.linuxliveusb.com/en/about/license   ( GPLv3 )


http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
( GPLv2+ )
( Not recommended by SysRescCD )


Thank you very much .

Mehmet Erol Sanliturk