Installing from USB Flash Drive

[Andrey Shuvikov]

On 8/1/07, Ross Penner <ross.penner at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I'm trying to install a system on a machine that doesn't have an optical
> drive. I plan on using a USB flash drive to do the job and found a
> messages from hackers at freebsd.org
> (http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org/msg55434.html)
> about just such a thing. The script provided converts the CD image into
> one suitable for a flashmemory stick. I used  and coverted it without
> issue. The instructions say to use dd to prepare the flash drive so
> executed
> #dd if=flashbsd.iso of=/dev/da0

This will copy CD to USB sector-by-sector recreating CD filesystem
(ISO-9660) on the stick. I don't think it's what system expects. I
tried to do similar thing some time ago. I don't remember details but
what I did was mounting CD-image and copying files from there to
preformatted USB stick.