Using the ISO releases on USB sticks.

[Warren Block]

On Sun, 14 Sep 2014, atar wrote:

> Just wanted to know please why does the command 'dd 
> if=FreeBSD-i386-disc1.iso of=myUSB-stick' doesn't make the USB stick 
> bootable like it would does for CDROMs or DVDs? What's the difference 
> between CDROM and an USB?

[top-posting deleted, please don't do that]

dd just copies bytes from one place to another.  An ISO image file is 
not bootable from a hard disk or USB stick, which require a different 
format and bootcode.

Some Linux systems use install files that are dual-purpose and can work 
from CD or USB.  FreeBSD does not do that.

Some writing utilities can take apart an ISO image and convert it to a 
bootable USB stick.  I don't know if any of those work for FreeBSD ISO 
images any more.