From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Dec 5 3:51: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A8D137B401 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 03:51:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from postfix.fh-schmalkalden.de (postfix.fh-schmalkalden.de [194.94.30.58]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8526743EC5 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 03:51:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wds_de@yahoo.de) Received: from smtp.fh-schmalkalden.de (viruswall [194.94.30.51]) by postfix.fh-schmalkalden.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABB4F58009; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 12:51:00 +0100 (CET) Received: from yahoo.de (ipgraf03.informatik.fh-schmalkalden.de [212.201.64.115]) by smtp.fh-schmalkalden.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87D8441300; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 12:51:01 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <3DEF3D9E.1A985CCA@yahoo.de> Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 12:50:54 +0100 From: Falko Meyer Organization: FH Schmalkalden/Germany, dep. of computer science X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-5SGI_137 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ronald Cotoni , freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 433 au References: <20021202092405.I33855-100000@trillian.santala.org> <20021202095350.I81474-100000@cma2600.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ronald Cotoni wrote: > > should i let dd finish or not? You can, but it should not be important. Ist should overwrite a few of the fist megabytes on the disk: > > You can also specify bs and count if you like or just let that run for a > > few seconds. Then reboot with your preferred installation media. Greetings, Falko Meyer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message