Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 06:26:47 -0800 (PST) From: manny rosa <manny_robot_freak@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Making boot disks Message-ID: <20020328142647.33954.qmail@web11608.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20020327194350.F14DC37B422@hub.freebsd.org>
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I've been having difficulty making boot disks(floppy images) with dd. FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE i386 su-2.05a# dd if=color.gz of=/dev/fd0 dd: /dev/fd0: Invalid argument 2605+1 records in 2605+0 records out 1333760 bytes transferred in 41.431344 secs (32192 bytes/sec) Linux 2.4.18 i686 [emmanuel@gimpy rootdsks]$ dd if=color.gz of=/dev/fd0 2605+1 records in 2605+1 records out Some of the records are not copied. It's not a permissions problem because I was able to write onther images. The color.gz is small enough to fit on a floppy (it works on Linux). I thought it might be my floppy drive or disk but someone else was able to replicate the problem... > I just happen to have a Slackware CD sitting around. > Let me try and see what > happens... > > balderdash# dd if=color.gz of=/dev/fd0 > dd: /dev/fd0: Invalid argument > 2777+1 records in > 2777+0 records out > 1421824 bytes transferred in 54.382309 secs (26145 > bytes/sec) > > I do get the Invalid argument message, but I get no > warnings when using the > text.gz root image. I've tried various options, such > as the ofs=18k suggested > in the Slackware docs, but to no avail. > > balderdash# dd if=text.gz of=/dev/fd0 > 2747+0 records in > 2747+0 records out > 1406464 bytes transferred in 55.446268 secs (25366 > bytes/sec) The problem is not so much not being able to make the slackware boot floppy, the problem is not being able to consistantly make floppy images. Any ideas? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards® http://movies.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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