<title>Prepare the Memory Stick</title>

	  <title>Write The Image File to the Memory Stick</title>

	  <warning>

	  <procedure>

	    <para>The example below lists

	    <title>Using FreeBSD To Write the Image</title>

	      <filename class="devicefile">/dev/da0</filename> as the target device from

	      which you will be booting.  Be very careful that you

	      have the correct device as the output target, or you may

	      destroy your existing data.</para>

	  </warning>

	  <para>Set the <varname>kern.geom.debugflags</varname> sysctl

	    to be able to write a master boot record to the target

	    device.</para>

	  <screen><userinput>&prompt.root; sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16</userinput></screen>

	    <warning>

	</step>

	      <para>The example below lists

	        <filename class="devicefile">/dev/da0</filename> as

	      the target device where the image will be written. Be

	      very careful that you have the correct device as the

	      output target, or you may destroy your existing data.

	      </para>

	    </warning>

	<step>

	    <step>

	  <title>Write the Image File to the Memory Stick</title>

	      <title>Writing the Image with &man.dd.1;</title>

	      <para>Set the <varname>kern.geom.debugflags</varname> sysctl

	        to be able to write a master boot record to the target

	        device.</para>

	  <para>The <filename>.img</filename> file is

	      <screen><userinput>&prompt.root; sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16</userinput></screen>

	    <emphasis>not</emphasis> a regular file you copy to the

	    memory stick.  It is an image of the complete contents of

	      <para>The <filename>.img</filename> file is

	    the disk.  This means that you <emphasis>cannot</emphasis>

	        <emphasis>not</emphasis> a regular file you copy to the

	    simply copy files from one disk to another.  Instead, you

	        memory stick.  It is an image of the complete contents of

	    must use &man.dd.1; to write the image directly to the

	        the disk.  This means that you <emphasis>cannot</emphasis>

	    disk:</para>

	        simply copy files from one disk to another.  Instead, you

	        must use &man.dd.1; to write the image directly to the

	        disk:</para>

	      <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>dd if=&os;-&rel.current;-RELEASE-&arch.i386;-memstick.img of=/dev/<replaceable>da0</replaceable> bs=64k</userinput></screen>

	    </step>

	  </procedure>

	  <procedure>

	    <title>Using &windows To Write the Image</title>

	  <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>dd if=&os;-&rel.current;-RELEASE-&arch.i386;-memstick.img of=/dev/<replaceable>da0</replaceable> bs=64k</userinput></screen>

	    <warning>

	      <para>The example below lists

	        <filename class="devicefile">H:</filename> as the

	        drive letter of the device where the image will be

	        written.  Be very careful that you have the correct

	        device as the output target, or you may destroy

	        existing data.</para>

	    </warning>

	    <step>

	      <title>Obtaining <application>Image Writer for Windows</application></title>

	      <para><application>Image Writer for Windows</application>

	        is a free application that can correctly write an

	        image file to a memory stick.  Download it from 

		<ulink url="http://launchpad.net/win32-image-writer/0.2/0.2/+download/win32diskimager-RELEASE-0.2-r23-win32.zip"></ulink>

		and extract it into a folder.</para>

	    </step>

	    <step>

	      <title>Writing The Image with Image Writer</title>

	      <para>Double-click the <application>Win32DiskImager</application>

	        icon to start the program.  Verify that the drive letter

	        shown under <computeroutput>Device</computeroutput>

	        is the drive with the memory stick.  Click the folder

	        icon and select the image to be written to the memory

	        stick.  Click <guibutton>Save</guibutton> to accept the

	        image file name.  Verify that everything is correct, and

	        that no folders on the memory stick are open in other

	        windows.  Finally, click <guibutton>Write</guibutton> to

	        write the image file to the drive.</para>

	    </step>

	  </procedure>