Re: usb stick install

[kalin <kalin%el.net@localhost>]

On 9/24/12 12:45 PM, kalin wrote:
> On 9/21/12 8:52 PM, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 08:51:36PM -0400, kalin wrote:
> > > i tried every single option on 2 different machines, one of which
> > > has 5.1 installed.
> > >
> > > the procedure is this:
> > >
> > > 1. downloaded i386 iso and install img from netbsd.org ftp.
> > > 2. i. dd the iso to the stick with bs=1m. that one gives me this:
> >
> > How, *exactly*?
>
>
>
> i'm not sure what more exactly except the command itself with the output:
>
> # dd if=NetBSD-6.0_RC1-i386-install.img of=/dev/disk2s2 bs=1m
> 512+0 records in
> 512+0 records out
> 536870912 bytes transferred in 413.500711 secs (1298355 bytes/sec)
> #
>
> it's getting to be a bit of a pain. something that should take about 15
> min total including downloading the image is taking days now...


this is getting more interesting by the minute. so i was writing to a 
partition of the stick. i just figured that out. ok. stupid.

anyway now when the thing boots of the stick it stops with: hd0a:netbsd: 
No such file or directory.

same for netbsd.gz onetbsd, netbsd.old, etc....

so what id did was i copied the NetBSD-6.0_RC2-i386-install.img.gz to 
netbsd.gz and dd that to the stick. that got bypassed.


how do i copy the rc2 image to the stick so the damn thing can find it?







> > Thor