Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2019 12:38:18 -0600 From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> To: Rob Hulley <hulleyrob@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-doc@freebsd.org" <freebsd-doc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Document Enhancement 2.3.1.1. Writing an Image File to USB Message-ID: <20190119183818.GX81907@kduck.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <927E693E-1F8A-4C02-93E2-59D95EA4E907@gmail.com> References: <927E693E-1F8A-4C02-93E2-59D95EA4E907@gmail.com>
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On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 02:54:17PM +0000, Rob Hulley wrote: > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/bsdinstall-pre.html <https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/bsdinstall-pre.html>; > > For OSX > > # dd if=FreeBSD-10.2-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/da0 bs=1M conv=sync > > Should read bs=1m or it will fail. (lower case m instead of upper case M) > > It should be obvious from the error message but might help someone. FreeBSD has, of course, accepted the uppercase letters as synonyms since r132933 (July of 2004). It seems that while Mac OS (at least on the High Sierra I have handy) only accepts the minuscule 'm', Linux will only accept the majuscule 'M' (!). So it's probably more appropriate to make a note about the argument not being fully portable than to try to adjust the example to work everywhere. -Ben
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