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What's happened in this thread, yurtesen, is that you've come into a community without really understanding its culture, made a bunch of unfounded assumptions about it, and judged it negatively based on those assumptions.
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"Cumbersome" means "hard to manage or work with." As in, "This multi-architecture, multi-boot-scheme, non-standardized *.iso file is such a complicated mess that maintaining the code for it is cumbersome." As you'll no doubt notice, whether something seems cumbersome is largely subjective. Just keep getting annoying responses like if you cant use a usb stick img dont use freebsd. It makes little sense to make something so cumbersome.Īnyway, as I expected, it was perhaps a question which was better to not ask. img file has a UFS filesystem which users DD into the usb drive.Īnyway, the reason was because other OSes usually give out 1-2 images which can form into anything you want. But freeBSD cant boot from those filesystems as far as I gather? It has to be able to mount one of those filesystems as root / filesystem.
#Freenas iso to usb windows
The reason as far as I understand is that it cant do it now is because when you make a flash in windows you need to use fat/fat32/exfat etc. To summarize, my original post was asking why FreeBSD can't make an ISO image and a boot method which can be easily converted to USB image etc.
Because I can't really make any sense of what is your point or point of your "facts" Thumb drives USB are much more like ide drives than CDs areīUT YES YOUR RIGHT, those engineers who refuse to conform to anything for sure for any length of time: are a total pain in the xxxxĪs i said i think several answers were given to OP and were simply not check on by OP or othersĭebguy, you apparently didnt read the whole thread. Pulling my leg if you said they had stuck to any "standard" since The bioses would only accept 1 kind - infact i'd think you were Not all bios supported the same boot code on thumb and CD img on stick - no, depends, mostly newer support, etc.įact: el torito boot CDs was only for intel !įact: there are newer CD booting standardsįact: the bios decides what boot code is allowed from what media
#Freenas iso to usb how to
How to write boot records is special (ie, el torito)Īnd does NOT work like writing boot record to IDE (dd it? no)įact: CD is widely supported across OSes in many forms and shapes
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They are NOT ide as advertised and require drivers To read (ie, linux ext2) what filesystem was written to CD: (there's many a reason CDs arent just a stored image of ZFS !)įact: CD's have inner layout which drivers have to support Some OS's still run their unix that way (Apple, until very recently) Think: camera or other compatibility - think widely supported
Here are some sparse facts that can be found on wikipeida or other study areas.įact: CDs and flash do not boot - that depends wholey on biosĪnd wholey what brand computer you boughtįact: CD's can be UDF, and not support case sensitive filenames the original poster was not questioned as to what boot code he had on the thumb (ie, how was this image dd'ed? did the boot code get where it needed and did the bios support booting thumb using ?el torito?. img for thumb and "what else do you want?" - everyone else seemed to ignore this. A big maybe now you know why!Ī few posters said the CD image does boot from thumb - but this was ignored. I bet we all seen something like that once since 9x. You might enter one old standard FreeBSD command and POOF partitions are gone. Anyway, I don’t trust this new magic that only provide virtual MBR existence.
#Freenas iso to usb portable
If Linux was based on FreeBSD efforts, surely Oracle has the technical expertise to add this ability for a FreeBSD Virtualbox guest … I wonder why new users keep ruling out simplicity just to encourage FreeBSD to be like Windows and Linux? Their criticism convinced the developers to replace ( not improve upon) the original sysintaller which now create a linux-style partition (with bits stepping upon the MBR like Ubuntu, etc), and to realize the next plot is for FreeBSD to stop supporting ISO files so that a FreeBSD vBox guest cannot transfer files from ANY kind portable media. If ISO files was to die, would that mean the end of Virtualbox for FreeBSD users? Virtualbox has no support for USB for a FreeBSD guest and I think that is by design.