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How to format USB?
I bought a new laptop today and wanted to see if I could install OpenBSD on it. It worked, but to my dismay I noticed that the laptop has no ethernet port, only wifi card, so my usual way of doing things won't work, which is to connect to the internet with cable and do fw_update to get the necessary firmware.
I do have another laptop and the usb I used to install OpenBSD. I have downloaded the firmwares I need, and now I only need to put it on the usb so that I can install it to my new laptop. How do I format the usb so that it works as a storage device again? I have tried to google this, but I can't seem to find out what to do, so if anyone here could help I would be very appreciative. |
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I went through this with an HP Stream 14. I used the install67.fs (install67.img) for the initial install and was able to bypass building a ufs2/mbr thumb drive.
Download the wireless firmware from http://firmware.openbsd.org/firmware/ and save to a vfat/msdos formated usb thumb drive. While you're downloading, you can also get any needed video/vmm firmware. Mount the firmware drive Code:
#mount -t msdos /dev/sd1i /mnt Last edited by shep; 27th May 2020 at 03:12 PM. |
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Yes, my old laptop is also running OpenBSD. Can't believe I forgot to mention that....
Your solution jggimi worked! Thank you! My touchpad is not recognized by OpenBSD, so this was all for nothing I guess, but at least I have learned something new. Not really sure what you meant by "all devices start with 0" though. I used xconsole and none of my deice started with 0, but as long as I understood the next parts its's all good ;P Could I also use this method to transfer images and videos to my new laptop? |
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Post your dmesg(8), which may help.
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From what I understand, OpenBSD's FFS2 has journaling of sorts. How do I format my 16GB USB Key using FFS2 without journaling?
In linux with ext4 it would be: Code:
# mke2fs -t ext4 -O ^has_journal /dev/{your_device_here} |
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https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=arti...20200528091634 Quote:
# newfs -O2 sd<number><letter> will work.
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