Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 21:26:01 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Eric Roseman <Eric.Roseman@Colorado.EDU> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@kathe.in> Subject: Re: failed memstick install Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1403312124250.92713@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <201404010309.s3139plM020883@refuge.colorado.edu> References: <201404010309.s3139plM020883@refuge.colorado.edu>
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On Tue, 1 Apr 2014, Eric Roseman wrote: > The article suggests to 'dd' the image with > > dd if=8.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/sdf bs=10240 conv=sync > > In the official handbook, > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/bsdinstall-pre.html > the advice is to dd the image with: > > dd if=FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img of=/dev/da0 bs=64k > > is the handbook incorrect? No, either will work. The current version in the Handbook uses larger block sizes for a faster copy.
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