From owner-freebsd-questions  Wed Jan 17  9:23: 0 2001
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFC3037B6A0
	for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 09:22:34 -0800 (PST)
Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112])
	by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id TAA07147;
	Wed, 17 Jan 2001 19:29:38 +0100
Message-ID: <3A65D519.1958F27B@i-clue.de>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 18:23:37 +0100
From: Christoph Sold <christoph.sold@server.i-clue.de>
Reply-To: christoph.sold@server.i-clue.de
Organization: i-clue interactive
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (WinNT; U)
X-Accept-Language: de
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Ed <edvard@post.omnitel.net>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Error /dev/fd0 HELP!!!
References: <3A65C531.9F575718@post.omnitel.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG



Ed schrieb:
> 
>         Hello,
>     I can't write to floppy device with command "dd if=... of=...
                                                               ^^^^^
> /dev/fd0"
>     I am getting "Invalig argument" error !!!!! Please help me!!!!
>     I can't copy my kernel image to floppy !!!!!!!!!!

[Having correct punctuation helps the reader. One exclamation mark is
enough.]

You must have access rights to write to the floppy. Usually only root
can do this. The command as you have shown above won't work, 'cause
there are points where non belong.

Here is how it works:

> su
Password:
# dd if=/kernel.GENERIC of=/dev/rfd0

HTH
-Christoph Sold


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message