From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 30 19:14: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0C3514CB3 for ; Fri, 30 Apr 1999 19:13:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.152.128]) by mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990501021556.KAUP7099562.mta2-rme@wocker> for ; Sat, 1 May 1999 14:15:56 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 14:13:56 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: boot floopies problems Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990501021556.KAUP7099562.mta2-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I can create boot floppies under DOS, no problem. C:\TEMP>fdimage kern.flp a: C:\TEMP>fdimage mfsroot.flp a: But when it comes to freebsd, I lose big time. # cd 3.1-19990429-STABLE # dd if=floppies/kern.flp of=/dev/floppy 2880+0 records in 2880+0 records out 1474560 bytes transferred in 7.475212 secs (197260 bytes/sec) # dd if=floppies/kern.flp of=/dev/rfd0 dd: /dev/rfd0: Input/output error 1+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 2.700567 secs (0 bytes/sec) From what I understand of dd, the floppy doesn't have to be formatted, or mounted. Is that correct? Also, the floppies in question work fine if I use fdimage but not dd. Are these bad floppies [insert scolding sound here] or inept operaters [blush]? For that matter, why does the same floppy with work fdimage but not dd? cheers -- Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.FreeBSDDiary.org/freebsd/ NZ FreeBSD User Group - http://www.nzfug.nz.freebsd.org/ The Racing System - http://www.racingsystem.com/racingsystem.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message