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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]




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