From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Jul 18 06:02:40 1995 Return-Path: doc-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id GAA25497 for doc-outgoing; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 06:02:40 -0700 Received: from emory.mathcs.emory.edu (emory.mathcs.emory.edu [128.140.2.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id GAA25486 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 06:02:36 -0700 Received: from bagend.UUCP by emory.mathcs.emory.edu (5.65/Emory_mathcs.4.0.14) via UUCP id AA06728 ; Tue, 18 Jul 95 09:02:31 -0400 Received: by bagend.atl.ga.us (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0sYCG6-0004pHC; Tue, 18 Jul 95 09:00 EDT Message-Id: From: jan@bagend.atl.ga.us (Jan Isley) Subject: Re: Quick start installation To: jfieber@grendel.csc.smith.edu (John Fieber) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 09:00:22 -0400 (EDT) Cc: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov, doc@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199507142140.RAA12422@grendel.csc.smith.edu> from "John Fieber" at Jul 14, 95 05:40:21 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 742 Sender: doc-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk John Fieber wrote: > Sean Kelly writes: > > * Concern: when using dd to make a floppy from an image, you might > > need to specify the block size on some systems. (I thought you > > needed `bs=18b' on FreeBSD as well!) Maybe we should mention this. > I don't think you *need* the blocksize, but I think an > appropriate blocksize makes things go a little faster. Am I > wrong? Anybody know optimal block sizes? Define optimal. :) Optimal block sizes for dd to a floppy would be the size of the track. For a 1.44MB floppy try bs=18k. -- Jan Isley Heroes have the shelf life of cottage cheese, jan@bagend.atl.ga.us and public memory is shorter than Dudley Moore. -- Rheta Grimsley Johnson