From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 20 12:18:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dart.sr.se (dart.SR.SE [193.12.91.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E26414C56 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:18:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gunnar@pluto.sr.se) Received: from honken.sr.se ([134.25.128.27]) by dart.sr.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA22418; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 21:18:32 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from pluto.sr.se (pluto.SR.SE [134.25.193.91]) by honken.sr.se (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA28105; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 21:18:31 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from gunnar@localhost) by pluto.sr.se (8.9.3/8.9.1) id VAA71340; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 21:18:31 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from gunnar) Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 21:18:31 +0200 From: Gunnar Flygt To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: 3.2 panic when dd-ing to floppy Message-ID: <19990920211831.A71307@sr.se> Reply-To: Gunnar Flygt References: <19990920194725.A68736@sr.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 11:59:47AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > 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. But would that prevent the panicking? -- __o regards, Gunnar ---_ \<,_ email: flygt@sr.se ---- (_)/ (_) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message