From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Mar 26 10:19:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09B2437B419 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 10:19:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from mvaexch02.acuson.com ([157.226.230.209]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA104D; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 10:19:38 -0800 Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 10:17:20 -0800 Received: from there (dhcp-46-171.acuson.com [157.226.46.171]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id GKG9D8RS; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 10:08:11 -0800 From: Johnson David To: manny rosa , freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Organization: Acuson Subject: Re: Making boot disks Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 10:19:27 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: <20020326141546.42007.qmail@web11602.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20020326141546.42007.qmail@web11602.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020326181940.09B2437B419@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message