Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 19:05:49 -0600 From: Dutch Ingraham <stoa@gmx.us> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Handbook wrong code mistake Message-ID: <20151115010548.GA22107@OBSD.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1511141733380.23366@wonkity.com> References: <306287979.5182807.1447525386292.JavaMail.yahoo.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <306287979.5182807.1447525386292.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> <CA%2BtpaK1kPYdFQxCrfYcExUQXPCerp2dpDNEcDg_3BHRKGH6-=g@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1511141733380.23366@wonkity.com>
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On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 05:36:36PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: > On Sat, 14 Nov 2015, Adam Vande More wrote: > > >On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Ömer Gülmen <freebsd-doc@freebsd.org> > >wrote: > > > >>Hi dude > >> > >>2.3.1.1. Writing an Image File to USB > >> > >>you wrote as:# dd if=FreeBSD-10.2-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/da0 > >>bs=1m conv=sync > >> > >> But it has to be on linux "bs=1M" not "bs=1m". Change it with capital > >>one. Do not understand? inform me ;) > >> > >> > >The command you reference is meant to be run on FreeBSD systems. If you > >have a different operating system, you'll have to adjust accordingly. > > Yes, but the sentence leading up to it says "The dd(1) command-line utility > is available on BSD, Linux®, and Mac OS® systems." > > So for maximum compatibility, we might as well change to an uppercase M. > Either way works on FreeBSD. I might suggest, in that case, a clarification to dd(1): "Where sizes are specified, a decimal, octal, or hexadecimal number of bytes is expected. If the number ends with a ``b'', ``k'', ``m'', ``g'', or ``w'', the number is multiplied by 512, 1024 (1K), 1048576 (1M), 1073741824 (1G) or the number of bytes in an integer, respectively."
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