Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 11:59:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Gunnar Flygt <flygt@sr.se> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 3.2 panic when dd-ing to floppy Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909201158420.6368-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <19990920194725.A68736@sr.se>
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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
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