From owner-freebsd-questions  Thu Mar 28  6:26:56 2002
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from web11608.mail.yahoo.com (web11608.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.172.60])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7506237B405
	for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 06:26:47 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <20020328142647.33954.qmail@web11608.mail.yahoo.com>
Received: from [24.164.9.71] by web11608.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 06:26:47 PST
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 06:26:47 -0800 (PST)
From: manny rosa <manny_robot_freak@yahoo.com>
Subject: Making boot disks
To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <20020327194350.F14DC37B422@hub.freebsd.org>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
List-ID: <freebsd-questions.FreeBSD.ORG>
List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive)
List-Help: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=help> (List Instructions)
List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-questions>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-questions>
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

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