On Wed, 03 Jan 2007 13:28:41 CST, Doug Poland wrote: > Hello, Hi Doug ;-)
> I'm trying to figure out how to get the latest FreeSBIE ISO onto a USB > mass-storage device. You need to put a ``flash'' image on there, not an iso. See the wiki docs, there are various ``make'' targets, flash being one of them. > From my googling, I've found that I should simply > be able to: > > # dd if=FreeSBIE-2.0-RC1-20061123.iso of=/dev/da0 > > Three strange things happened after I ran this command, > > 1. It took almost 26 hours to perform the dd command. Even though this is > 1GB USB-2 device, the throughput was only about 6K/second. Can I speed > things up by specifying a block size? That's real slow, try bs=64k cheers, doug -- FreeSBIE mailing list (http://www.freesbie.org)
