Re: faq4.html addition: making USB install media

Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> Sat, 28 Sep 2013 10:23:22 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.os.openbsd.www
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On 2013/09/28 10:46, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote:
> The attached diff adds a new subsection about creating bootable USB media to 
> the install faq, hopefully useful and correct.

How widely does this actually work?

This method is common on Linux distributions but they have a specially
prepared partition table (mkhybrid) so that the dd'd image is valid for
writing to a hard-drive-like device, whereas OpenBSD isos are just plain
cd images.