On Sat, 5 Sep 2015, Allan Jude wrote:
On 2015-09-05 20:11, Ali Ghahraei wrote:
Good afternoon.
I just wanted to inform you about an error in the handbook (or at least I
think it is one). In "Pre-Installation Tasks" there is a command for
burning disk images, but it currently is:
# dd if=*FreeBSD-10.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img* of=/dev/*da0* bs=1m conv=sync
And I think it should be:
# dd if=*FreeBSD-10.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img* of=/dev/*da0* bs=1M conv=sync
With a capital m in bs. This is because I tried to use the command and it
returned dd: invalid number: '1m'.
I apologize if my English is not too good, but I'm not from an English-speaking
country. I send you this message because I wanted to help you. I hope it is
useful :)
Only the Linux utilities are sensitive to the case of the unit, but yes,
we should change it in the documentation.
The device name will not be correct on Linux, either. That is a
FreeBSD-specific command. We could add a Linux variation, but it ought
to explain how to determine the correct device to write.
Incidentally, we should test using conv=sync,noerror,sparse. The last
one in particular could make writing memory sticks faster.
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