From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Jul 18 09:15:23 1995 Return-Path: doc-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA28473 for doc-outgoing; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 09:15:23 -0700 Received: from grendel.csc.smith.edu ([131.229.222.23]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA28467 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 09:15:22 -0700 Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by grendel.csc.smith.edu (8.6.5/8.6.5) id MAA19768; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 12:15:45 -0400 From: jfieber@grendel.csc.smith.edu (John Fieber) Message-Id: <199507181615.MAA19768@grendel.csc.smith.edu> Subject: Re: Quick start installation To: jan@bagend.atl.ga.us (Jan Isley) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 12:15:45 -0400 (EDT) Cc: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov, doc@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Jan Isley" at Jul 18, 95 10:53:52 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 488 Sender: doc-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Jan Isley writes: > is pretty darn simple. On every system I have played with, not > using bs=18k makes the write take so much longer you are sitting > there wondering if something has gone wrong. Forgive me for asking a stupid question (but I went from CP/M --> Amiga --> PC, and the phonomena of 1.2MB came and went during my Amiga years) but is this block size appropriate for 1.2MB floppies as well? -john === jfieber@cs.smith.edu ========== Come up and be a kite! --K. Bush ===