Re: doing an upgrade from a flash drive

[Dustin Marquess <dmarquess%gmail.com@localhost>]

You can use mkmemstick.sh (
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/jmcneill/mkmemstick.sh ) to
convert the .iso into a file that you can then dd onto a USB stick.

-Dustin

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Steven Bellovin <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost> 
wrote:
> I'm currently building a 5.x .iso, via the usual mechanisms.  Is there any 
> easy way to copy everything to a USB flash disk, make that bootable, and do 
> the upgrade from it instead of from a CD I can burn?
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>                --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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