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From: Johnson David <djohnson@acuson.com>
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On Wednesday 27 March 2002 06:57 am, manny rosa wrote:

> > > 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.

I just happen to have a Slackware CD sitting around. Let me try and see what 
happens...

balderdash# dd if=color.gz of=/dev/fd0
dd: /dev/fd0: Invalid argument
2777+1 records in
2777+0 records out
1421824 bytes transferred in 54.382309 secs (26145 bytes/sec)

I do get the Invalid argument message, but I get no warnings when using the 
text.gz root image. I've tried various options, such as the ofs=18k suggested 
in the Slackware docs, but to no avail.

balderdash# dd if=text.gz of=/dev/fd0
2747+0 records in
2747+0 records out
1406464 bytes transferred in 55.446268 secs (25366 bytes/sec)

If all else fails, you can always use the text.gz root image. I would also 
ask on -questions.

David

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