From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 20 10:56:09 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53401106564A for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:56:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glen.j.barber@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 010358FC0A for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:56:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws19 with SMTP id 19so7280515vws.13 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2010 03:56:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=ZjFOGMUynzaw9IU/cPRwBn/oNQhpOsiR1otiH8nxil4=; b=nvwKZq/6KfvngNv30yCZv0FJEH4am1v/uYAgjxzjL2GJFcE57vE7B/asRuPxPEW0t9 8xELX/1t95+NbDqYcL6Q1SaSnHKZKMcC7nqfRQaqv9FAnYVv1pYQ6Oa/bav4ieAjeEeq fMJzvRlOFIr2zB5zW1ZVBs9vqJGrv4IN/J+B8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=OvfKDlHtDcC/h11cWpLWqOYiThvltAmBi0YvBnpp7x5JeooHj70hV9PQNJhd3+Zwef 9wzTUPZ/iw0+2bRkESAOZp7K0v5EYmlBzs7r4cNWcpd0i1SOrZXb1wc9He+uhYdc9WAk jmMi4ISotfQYKDtdRjxOGhjwB8S5H0yvO11oU= Received: by 10.220.62.72 with SMTP id w8mr3314420vch.209.1279623367108; Tue, 20 Jul 2010 03:56:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from schism.local (c-71-230-240-241.hsd1.pa.comcast.net [71.230.240.241]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y25sm15725555vbw.16.2010.07.20.03.56.03 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 20 Jul 2010 03:56:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C4580C2.5080000@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:56:02 -0400 From: Glen Barber User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100608 Thunderbird/3.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warren Block References: <4C44F9D3.9060009@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/147347: [patch][handbook] Request for comments on memstick install instructions X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:56:09 -0000 On 7/20/10 12:21 AM, Warren Block wrote: > On Mon, 19 Jul 2010, Glen Barber wrote: > >> The section is currently modeled after the floppy disk install >> section, which I did not remove as 7.3-RELEASE still contains the >> floppy disks on the CD; though I noted floppy disk images were not >> included in 8.0 and newer. >> >> I'd like to get feedback from the documentation community before >> filing a PR. > > Filling the first 1K with zeros and labeling and newfs-ing the stick > should not be necessary, as the image will overwrite that anyway. > > For the actual image, conv=sync should not be needed, and might as well > use a 64k buffer: > > &prompt.root; dd > if=&rel.current;-RELEASE-&arch.i386;-memstick.img > of=/dev/da0 bs=64k > Thanks for the feedback. I have an updated patch available at: http://www.glenbarber.us/docs/handbook.install.sgml.diff Now, when I had done my USB install, I had a problem where the USB stick was not bootable until I zeroed the first 1k blocks. I did have previous data on the device, which perhaps was the problem. dd-ing the .img to the device wrote the information as expected; I just could not boot from it. I left this part in, as I personally ran into this, though I removed labeling and newfs-ing. Regards, -- Glen Barber