Re: Trying to boot from USB pendrive image on a netbook

[John Nemeth <jnemeth%cue.bc.ca@localhost>]

On Feb 10,  9:09pm, Michel Behr wrote:
} 
} Hi! This should an easy one: I'm trying to boot netbsd from an USB
} pendrive, but the pendrive just get ignored... I verified the images (I
} tried current i386, 6.1.3 i386, 6.1.3 amd64) and they are all OK - I tested
} booting them in virtualbox on Linux, and I get the installation screens
} just fine. I also tested md5sum, all good.
} 
} This has probably something to do with using the dd command. I tried first
} zero'ing the pendrive through:
} 
} # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=4k count=50000
} 
} just in case...  :-) And then writing the image with:
} 
} # dd if=netbsd.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=4K
} 
} I'm trying to use the instructions from here:
} 
http://wiki.netbsd.org/tutorials/how_to_install_netbsd_from_an_usb_memory_stick/

     Apparently not.  Near the beginning of that page is this:

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Downloading the installation image

Installation images are available on the NetBSD mirrors under the images/ 
directory, their filenames match the *install.img.gz pattern.

For example if we want to download NetBSD 6.0 for i386:

# ftp 
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-6.0/images/NetBSD-6.0-i386-install.img.gz
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dding an iso image to a thumb drive is just plain wrong.

}-- End of excerpt from Michel Behr