From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 1 10:05:41 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E45FB106564A for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2011 10:05:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from qmta02.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta02.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A59678FC19 for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2011 10:05:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta20.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.71]) by qmta02.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id Dm5b1g0011YDfWL52m5h8B; Tue, 01 Mar 2011 10:05:41 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([98.248.33.18]) by omta20.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id Dm5f1g0080PUQVN3gm5gM0; Tue, 01 Mar 2011 10:05:41 +0000 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 70A2E9B422; Tue, 1 Mar 2011 02:05:38 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 02:05:38 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Patrick Lamaiziere Message-ID: <20110301100538.GA35711@icarus.home.lan> References: <4D66CCFF.9020903@buffalo.edu> <20110301102607.7f27aa34@mr129041.univ-rennes1.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20110301102607.7f27aa34@mr129041.univ-rennes1.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Ken Smith Subject: Re: 8.2/7.4-RELEASEs Announced... X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 10:05:42 -0000 On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 10:26:07AM +0100, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: > Le Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:26:23 -0500, > Ken Smith a écrit : > > Hello, > > > 8.2-RELEASE and 7.4-RELEASE have been announced. The announcement > > messages are available here: > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.2R/announce.html > > There is a small typo in the name of the usb image: > « > memstick > > This can be written to an USB memory stick (flash drive) and used > to do an install on machines capable of booting off USB drives. It > also supports booting into a "livefs" based rescue mode. The > documentation packages are provided but no other packages. > ... > # dd if=8.2-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/da0 bs=10240 > conv=sync > » > should be "FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img" Not to mention, the block size specified doesn't jibe with what's in the FreeBSD Handbook (which uses bs=64k): http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html Other users have pointed this out to me on my blog, wondering exactly where bs=10240 came from. So, the release notes going forward should probably use bs=64k. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP 4BD6C0CB |