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From: "Brian A. Seklecki" <lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org>
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Subject: misc/35130: Example dd command for making 4.x install diskettes from Solaris 2.x
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>Number:         35130
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       Example dd command for making 4.x install diskettes from Solaris 2.x
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
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>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Feb 19 20:50:01 PST 2002
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Brian A. Seklecki
>Release:        4.5-RELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
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>Description:
    From:    ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.5-RELEASE/INSTALL.TXT  


On Solaris, the command is:

dd if=kern.flp of=/dev/rdiskette0 bs=18k
(or mfsroot.flp), etc.

Worth mentioning


>How-To-Repeat:
     Buy a sparcstation.  Try to install FreeBSD on the SunPCi card
>Fix:
      
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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