Geom question

[William A. Mahaffey III]

I am prepping to provision 2 boxen w/ FreeBSD 9.3R, preferably from a 
thumb drive. I would like to add a 'utils' directory w/ some scripts I 
wrote to automate the partitioning/slicing of the HDD's (2X on 1 box, 8X 
on the other), & also accumulate output from the install process in case 
questions arise. To that end, I am planning on partitioning/slicing a 
thumb drive, prepping it to be bootable following examples on the gpart 
man page, & copying verbatim stuff from the memstick.img for 9.3R that I 
downloaded a while back, as well as adding my utils directory. Reading 
up on gpart & geom raises 1 question: can I do all these preps on a disk 
image file I create w/ dd, or do i do them in place on the target 
memstick, then dd the results onto an on-disk image for safekeeping ? 
Put another way, can a disk image created by dd be a 'geom' for gpart ? 
TIA & have a good one.


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