From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 20 11:43:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7617D15BE2 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 11:43:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA07953; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 11:59:48 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 11:59:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Gunnar Flygt Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: 3.2 panic when dd-ing to floppy In-Reply-To: <19990920194725.A68736@sr.se> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Gunnar Flygt wrote: > Today I got disappointed for the first time, after having used FreeBSD > since almost two years now. I was making disks for the upgrade: > dd if=kern.flp of=/dev/fd0 > I had forgot to open the write protection on the floppy, and 3.2-RELEASE > whent totally mad trying to push the floppy drive out of the computer, > and then panic'ing > > Should it be like this? ;-) You should be using the raw device (/dev/rfd0), these has been discussed several times. -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@rush.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Wintelcom systems administrator and programmer - http://www.wintelcom.net/ [bright@wintelcom.net] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message