USB stick and some help with it.
Michael B. Eichorn
ike at michaeleichorn.com
Mon Aug 3 23:06:23 UTC 2015
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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