USB stick and some help with it.

[Michael B. Eichorn]

On Tue, 2015-08-04 at 00:51 +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote:
> 
> On 2015-08-03 20:18, jd1008 wrote:
> > 
> > On 08/03/2015 12:01 PM, Quartz wrote:
> > > Can you do a quick sanity check and see if the stick can be wiped 
> > > on 
> > > a different machine? Or perhaps the same machine by booting off a 
> > > 
> > > live linux cd. Being on old flash drive there's a possibility 
> > > it's 
> > > just up and died due to wear and the problem isn't due to FreeBSD 
> > > at 
> > > all.
> > I second Quartz's suggestion.
> > Just download a live linux cd, such as:
> > http://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/knoppix-dvd/KNOPPIX_V7.4.1DVD-2014
> > -09-15-EN.iso 
> > 
> > along with checksum files:
> > http://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/knoppix-dvd/KNOPPIX_V7.4.1DVD-2014
> > -09-15-EN.iso.md5 
> > 
> > http://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/knoppix-dvd/KNOPPIX_V7.4.1DVD-2014
> > -09-15-EN.iso.sha1 
> > 
> > 
> > Once you burn it to dvd, boot it, and use the gui to launch a 
> > terminal 
> > (icon for it is at bottom left bar).
> > 
> My burner can no longer burn dvds only plain cds.
Arch Linux still fits on a 700MiB CD.
https://www.archlinux.org/download/

The CD boots into a live environment as root. so you can skip:
> > then you run
> > su -
> > 

And start here:
> > then you insert the usb stick.
> > Assuming there is only one HD in the machine, the stick will be
> > named /dev/sdb  If more than one HD in the machine, say 4 HD (sda, 
> > sdb, sdc, sdd), then
> > the stick will be sde.
> > 
> > Run
> > 
> > dd  if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd?  bs=1M
> > where ? is b or c or d ...etc depending on how many HD's you have 
> > in 
> > the system.
> > You do not need to specify the count, because dd will stop when the 
> > 
> > stick is full of
> > zeros.
> > 
> > Once done, unplug the stick, and reinsert it.
> > 
> > then run the command fdisk /dev/sd?  (? as explained above)
> > 
> > create 1 partition.
> > set it's type to whatever you want. I usually use the letter c as 
> > the 
> > type
> > to mean fat lba.
> > 
> > To finish, type the command w  to the fdisk session
> > and you are done.
> > 
> > Now type fdisk -l  /dev/sd?
> > 
> > and you will see the drive has 1 partition.
> > 
> > now create a filesystem on your drive:
> > 
> > mkfs -t vfat /dev/sd?1   (again ? as explained above).
> > 
> > type the command
> > reboot
> > and the dvd drive will get ejected.
> > press the return key to boot into your normal HD.
> > 
> > 
> > The stick is now useable and mountable.
> > 
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