From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 8 04:36:27 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 429B810656A5 for ; Fri, 8 Oct 2010 04:36:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Received: from sola.nimnet.asn.au (paqi.nimnet.asn.au [115.70.110.159]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4CC38FC1D for ; Fri, 8 Oct 2010 04:36:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sola.nimnet.asn.au (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o984aMT4067938; Fri, 8 Oct 2010 15:36:23 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 15:36:22 +1100 (EST) From: Ian Smith To: Jeremy Chadwick In-Reply-To: <20101007204627.GA19849@icarus.home.lan> Message-ID: <20101008152938.I59829@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <20101007204627.GA19849@icarus.home.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: 1 0 <0110001101100100b@gmail.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Announcement - Typo X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2010 04:36:27 -0000 On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 07:59:21PM +0000, 1 0 wrote: > > There is a typo in FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Announcement: > > > > # dd if=8.1-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/da0 bs=10240 conv=sync > > > > should be > > > > # dd if=8.1-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/da0 bs=1024k conv=sync > > AFAIK, this isn't a typo. 10240 is correct (10KiB), but I don't know the rationale for that size. The typo is that, as per the release announcement, all of the filenames are now preceded by 'FreeBSD-'. I let Ken know ages ago, but suppose I should have submitted a PR .. cheers, Ian