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>--- en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install/chapter.sgml.orig	2011-01-16 23:41:02.000000000 -0700
>+++ en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install/chapter.sgml	2011-01-17 00:51:56.000000000 -0700
>@@ -631,35 +631,78 @@
> 	</step>
> 
> 	<step>
>-	  <title>Prepare the Memory Stick</title>
>-
>-	  <warning>
>-	    <para>The example below lists
>-	      <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>
>+	  <title>Write The Image File to the Memory Stick</title>
>+	  
>+	  <procedure>
>+	    <title>Using FreeBSD To Write the Image</title>
> 
>-	  <screen><userinput>&prompt.root; sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16</userinput></screen>
>-	</step>
>+	    <warning>
>+	      <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>
>-	  <title>Write the Image File to the Memory Stick</title>
>+	    <step>
>+	      <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
>-	    <emphasis>not</emphasis> a regular file you copy to the
>-	    memory stick.  It is an image of the complete contents of
>-	    the disk.  This means that you <emphasis>cannot</emphasis>
>-	    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><userinput>&prompt.root; sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16</userinput></screen>
>+	  
>+	      <para>The <filename>.img</filename> file is
>+	        <emphasis>not</emphasis> a regular file you copy to the
>+	        memory stick.  It is an image of the complete contents of
>+	        the disk.  This means that you <emphasis>cannot</emphasis>
>+	        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>
> 	</step>
>       </procedure>

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