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I am trying to write FreeBSD-10.3-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img
to a USB flash drive, in the hopes of installing FreeBSD on an x64 computer in my house. Here is the image: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/10.3/
.
I have searched up how to write .img
files to a USB flash drive, with most sites saying to use Unetbootin, Startup Disk Creator, or the dd command. When I plugged in and selected the flash drive after using Unetbootin, I received the message "Missing operating system". With Disk Creator, I received a message telling me that Disk Creator couldn't write the image to the flash drive.
As for the dd command, I used this: dd if=FreeBSD-10.3-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/sdb1 bs=10240 conv=sync
, which I got from here and here. The command writes a bunch of garbage files to my flash drive, instead of the contents of the FreeBSD image (which I assume wouldn't be garbage files).
How should I go about writing FreeBSD to the flash drive and installing it to my computer, given that these options didn't work?
Thanks for mentioning the part about sdb instead of sdb!
For anybody using cygwin for this, make sure you started cygwin as administrator. you can find out what /dev/sdb or similar you should use with
cat /proc/partitions
.To see if dd is making progress, append
status=progress
to the dd command. – lucidbrot – 2016-10-17T09:00:09.497