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Date:      Tue, 26 Mar 2002 10:19:27 -0800
From:      Johnson David <djohnson@acuson.com>
To:        manny rosa <manny_robot_freak@yahoo.com>, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Making boot disks
Message-ID:  <20020326181940.09B2437B419@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020326141546.42007.qmail@web11602.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20020326141546.42007.qmail@web11602.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Tuesday 26 March 2002 06:15 am, manny rosa wrote:
> Hey, I've been having trouble making boot floppies. In
> this case, I was making floppies for Slackware, but
> the problem is dd won't copy all the records even
> though there's enough room.
>
> FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE i386
>
> su-2.05a# dd if=color.gz of=/dev/fd0
> dd: /dev/fd0: Invalid argument

My assumption would be that you don't have write permission to /dev/fd0. Have 
you done this as root?

David

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