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: ----- 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 ----- dding an iso image to a thumb drive is just plain wrong. }-- End of excerpt from Michel Behr