Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 02:05:38 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> To: Patrick Lamaiziere <patfbsd@davenulle.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Ken Smith <kensmith@buffalo.edu> Subject: Re: 8.2/7.4-RELEASEs Announced... Message-ID: <20110301100538.GA35711@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <20110301102607.7f27aa34@mr129041.univ-rennes1.fr> References: <4D66CCFF.9020903@buffalo.edu> <20110301102607.7f27aa34@mr129041.univ-rennes1.fr>
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On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 10:26:07AM +0100, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: > Le Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:26:23 -0500, > Ken Smith <kensmith@buffalo.edu> a écrit : > > Hello, > > > 8.2-RELEASE and 7.4-RELEASE have been announced. The announcement > > messages are available here: > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.2R/announce.html > > There is a small typo in the name of the usb image: > « > memstick > > This can be written to an USB memory stick (flash drive) and used > to do an install on machines capable of booting off USB drives. It > also supports booting into a "livefs" based rescue mode. The > documentation packages are provided but no other packages. > ... > # dd if=8.2-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/da0 bs=10240 > conv=sync > » > should be "FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img" Not to mention, the block size specified doesn't jibe with what's in the FreeBSD Handbook (which uses bs=64k): http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html Other users have pointed this out to me on my blog, wondering exactly where bs=10240 came from. So, the release notes going forward should probably use bs=64k. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP 4BD6C0CB |
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