Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 11:43:37 -0800 From: Johnson David <djohnson@acuson.com> To: manny rosa <manny_robot_freak@yahoo.com>, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making boot disks Message-ID: <20020327194350.F14DC37B422@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20020327145723.33101.qmail@web11601.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020327145723.33101.qmail@web11601.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Wednesday 27 March 2002 06:57 am, manny rosa wrote: > > > FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE i386 > > > > > > su-2.05a# dd if=color.gz of=/dev/fd0 > > > dd: /dev/fd0: Invalid argument > > > > My assumption would be that you don't have write > > permission to /dev/fd0. Have > > you done this as root? > > > > David > > Yes, I've done it as root. It get permission denied > otherwise. It actually begins to copy the image, but > it doesn't copy the last few records. I just happen to have a Slackware CD sitting around. Let me try and see what happens... balderdash# dd if=color.gz of=/dev/fd0 dd: /dev/fd0: Invalid argument 2777+1 records in 2777+0 records out 1421824 bytes transferred in 54.382309 secs (26145 bytes/sec) I do get the Invalid argument message, but I get no warnings when using the text.gz root image. I've tried various options, such as the ofs=18k suggested in the Slackware docs, but to no avail. balderdash# dd if=text.gz of=/dev/fd0 2747+0 records in 2747+0 records out 1406464 bytes transferred in 55.446268 secs (25366 bytes/sec) If all else fails, you can always use the text.gz root image. I would also ask on -questions. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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