On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> A user who may well have been smoking crack at the time but has
> nonetheless found an "interesting" bug sent me this procedure:
>
> Use this small perl script to create a file with 3000 spaces in it:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> open FOO, ">foo.img" or die "can't open foo; $!\n";
> for ($i=0;$i<3000;$i++){print FOO " ";}
> close FOO;
>
> [I'm sure there are easier ways, but since he already provided a script]
>
> Now vnconfig the foo.img file:
>
> # vnconfig -c /dev/vn0 foo.img
>
> Now attempt to disklabel it (again, I didn't say this made *sense* :)
>
> # disklabel -B -w /dev/vn0 minimum
>
> <KABOOM - watch your system panic>
>
> That isn't right, is it? :-)
I've been building boot floppies on PicoBSD with recent -STABLEs with no
problems, although PicoBSD zero-fills the file with dd instead of using
spaces (0x20).
This is known to not work on -current, though.
Doug White
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