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

[Brett Lymn <blymn%internode.on.net@localhost>]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 09:09:05PM -0200, Michel Behr wrote:
> 
> # 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/
> 

But you didn't follow them... you want the install image not the ISO.
Have you tried with the install image as shown in the tutorial?

> I'm pretty sure I'm missing something when trying to write the image with
> dd, probably the "zero" part... any hints?
> 

Zeroing the memory stick should not be necessary, you are going to
overwrite the start of the device anyway and that is the important bit.

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Brett Lymn
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