Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 10:53:52 -0400 (EDT) From: jan@bagend.atl.ga.us (Jan Isley) To: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) Cc: jfieber@grendel.csc.smith.edu, doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quick start installation Message-ID: <m0sYE1x-0004pHC@bagend.atl.ga.us> In-Reply-To: <9507181344.AA05571@emu.fsl.noaa.gov> from "Sean Kelly" at Jul 18, 95 07:44:53 am
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Ah, I think I missed the start of this. I am new to the doc list.
My first take would be that if you are talking about dd instead of
dos's rawrite.exe, tell them to use bs.
dd if=boot.flp of=/dev/fd0 bs=18k
is pretty darn simple. On every system I have played with, not
using bs=18k makes the write take so much longer you are sitting
there wondering if something has gone wrong.
I know, assuming that because they are using dd that they know
what you are talking about is a BAD assumption. Never mind. :)
Sean Kelly wrote:
> >>>>> "Jan" == Jan Isley <jan@bagend.atl.ga.us> writes:
> Jan> John Fieber wrote:
> >> I don't think you *need* the blocksize, but I think an
> >> appropriate blocksize makes things go a little faster. Am I
> >> wrong? Anybody know optimal block sizes?
> Jan> Define optimal. :) Optimal block sizes for dd to a floppy
> Jan> would be the size of the track.
> But for a ``quick start'' document, the KISS principle applies, so
> John had the right idea: just leave bs options out!
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