Formatting USB stick

[carpetburger]

How do I format my USB drive to get

sudo xzcat FreeNAS-9.2.2-RELEASE-x64.img.xz | dd of=/dev/da0 bs=64k

to work under Ubuntu? Current message is
dd: opening `/dev/sdb1': Permission denied

 

[warri]

You are only running xzcat as root, but not dd. Try

Code:

xzcat FreeNAS-9.2.2-RELEASE-x64.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/da0 bs=64k 

 

[carpetburger]

Thanks, one step forward. Successfully generated dd output to USB stick. Booting from the USB stick results in pages of # on my screen. Gave up after an hour. What do I expect? Documentation says I get the screen with 11 options (as I do with 8.3 memory stick). Partition on USB stick has been destroyed by dd(?). Any ideas?

 

[warri]

Yes, dd'ing the image destroys the original partitions. You have to use /dev/sdb (the whole device) and not /dev/sdb1 (the first partition) when using this method.

Alternatively, install FreeNAS from CD :)

 

[carpetburger]

Many thanks...up and running now.