From owner-freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Sun Nov 15 01:19:03 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FDB8A2EE42 for ; Sun, 15 Nov 2015 01:19:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stoa@gmx.us) Received: from mout.gmx.net (mout.gmx.net [212.227.17.21]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mout.gmx.net", Issuer "TeleSec ServerPass DE-1" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B6DC61606 for ; Sun, 15 Nov 2015 01:19:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stoa@gmx.us) Received: from OBSD.my.domain ([24.116.197.15]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx103) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MYOCL-1Zt2m71fij-00V7od for ; Sun, 15 Nov 2015 02:05:58 +0100 Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 19:05:49 -0600 From: Dutch Ingraham To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Handbook wrong code mistake Message-ID: <20151115010548.GA22107@OBSD.my.domain> References: <306287979.5182807.1447525386292.JavaMail.yahoo.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <306287979.5182807.1447525386292.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:ZhmIZbmwV1f04kRhW9LTlUqfPgY+igtNeIN3vB/BxhSQQPiiMux YhasvcpWwjypRCJNaRtyFiyDKzbql68ho4BiW5eg85fW/R7x+4Vd8nPYb4psKYXWMADRXMn 0fPjcfGWWw4xxgEYrCsDlj6uARUCay63XVvA5pT4RPVsP32AbPMp8HjnkrdEpM1qPS4Xxh5 jG6PSXccGsayJG8c3ViCw== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:pKrUv50TpEk=:35cfmgyBnlyQE55JiEmY2Q yZ0MbcNFogQ83AwzWIzSMlA+x3D4RTRx+bbjS5xtCktOFAclgNVY+G9n3VUwqYSG6Gp4OPqQw p4p94q8FacHP6nScAXPcAeZvNy852a/ORZ9uU2TDnnU8rFxRICx7Mw9MF2usAgy54WqKFwmaj xL/sE+NPSLlqKkzl8FyEUU0z32sTZCFfjI+0rs7PqH01vvGnbOTa3Uy2cm7RBaIARPZLTJBCk S2FWv4j0/c1F+egUFov9rxf6hHOTljmkM3OJrDUsbGYR+5+II43HZeC9+ossh1LuS7e28HbMi anLUkW1vyFWAwlcGEBuVJCAqzLPtPWCPCQ4KMzI1NGIXKGtYyH2qUGWv59vghatlimy4IZIt7 bIekdSOvHlpSXrIYct/S3DCByTmPmSb0krs0OEL8ZUJbWAbo4kT3D50gDQd9GPuqE+w6pbQzr eZ37YjVngnsseQrGU/KXXlAtZyZuxiZv6T5zAVUEiz7S5RaaxIua+RB9DqdKXQPQv/4DkhVNd +MWpRkQsLvQBttXtKzuyGIkPYxxsOX9V4sOlSjY0+sVH2PRUg+OIKzlKSR1MLnqQf9MG2mH2I YXdn1VfevpCwi5yPQeMQ4vBMK2zA3dqwghJFuCrjgchBhwQNQq0s8DrUgbvjiM7dGVFYqKhPU LcbXTp5oJfp+hzsFA7eX44l/zw8JvinMHGbZM95luz5StcOp5eeMdvYiHuiaYQ9uV/8l5YgDr QfBGaDqSky3O1vb6DeN/BoNj0fEWncbehlE2EOHSvSDfEz2j4kg42pI/WO8= X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2015 01:19:03 -0000 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 > >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."