Make a bootable FaunOS USB flash drive on Windows

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There is an open-source application available for Windows which allows burning your downloaded FaunOS USB image file to a USB key drive. The application is flashnul. You can download it at:

http://shounen.ru/soft/flashnul/flashnul-0.991.zip

Unzip the contents of the zip file to a folder and start a command window and change directory to the folder. Use flashnul.exe. There is a README file. If you issue the flashnul command without any options, a list of valid options is given. With the USB key drive plugged in I issued the following command:

flashnul c -p

which gave me a list of my physical and logical drives. I found out that on my machine my USB key was physical drive 2 or logical drive e. So then I issued a load command with my FaunOS image faunos-fortytwo-0.3.2-usb.img. The following is just an example and your USB drive number may be different:

flashnul 2 -L faunos-fortytwo-0.3.2-usb.img (if you rename, do not use faunos.img as the ID)

It then asked me to confirm the loading to which I answered "yes" and my image was then burned to the USB drive and I had a bootable FaunOS USB key.

You must be sure that the drive number for your USB drive is correct. Flashnul will load the image on to the drive you specify after you confirm.

Note: If you has not administrative rights, physical drives will be not accessible. Use a drive letter (f: g: etc) instead.


MAKE SURE YOU ARE LOADING THE FAUNOS IMAGE ON TO THE CORRECT DRIVE. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT. SPECIFYING THE WRONG DRIVE WILL RESULT IN UNRECOVERABLE AND PERMANENT LOSS OF DATA. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.


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