From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Mar 27 6:57:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from web11601.mail.yahoo.com (web11601.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.172.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E2C7637B41E for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 06:57:23 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20020327145723.33101.qmail@web11601.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.164.9.71] by web11601.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 06:57:23 PST Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 06:57:23 -0800 (PST) From: manny rosa Subject: Re: Making boot disks To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 --- Johnson David wrote: > 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 Yes, I've done it as root. It get permission denied otherwise. It actually begins to copy the image, but it doesn't copy the last few records. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards® http://movies.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message