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@@ -27,21 +27,19 @@ Prepare the USB drive (in LibertyBSD or OpenBSD)
If you downloaded your ISO on a LibertyBSD or OpenBSD system, here is
how to create the bootable LibertyBSD/OpenBSD USB drive:
-Connect the USB drive. Check dmesg:
+Connect the USB drive and check the system message buffer:
$ dmesg | tail
-Check to confirm which drive it is, for example, if you think it's sd3:
+Check to confirm which drive it is, for example, if you think it's `sd3`:
$ disklabel sd3
-Check that it wasn't automatically mounted. If it was, unmount it. For
-example:
+Check that it wasn't automatically mounted. If it was, unmount it:
$ doas umount /dev/sd3i
-dmesg told you what device it is. Overwrite the drive, writing the
-OpenBSD installer to it with dd. For example:
+Now write the OpenBSD installer to the drive with `dd`:
$ doas dd if=install60.fs of=/dev/rsdXc bs=1M; sync