Bug 35130

Summary:	Example dd command for making 4.x install diskettes from Solaris 2.x
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	Brian A. Seklecki <lavalamp>
Component:	misc	Assignee:	Bruce A. Mah <bmah>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	4.5-RELEASE
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Brian A. Seklecki 2002-02-20 04:50:01 UTC

    From:    ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.5-RELEASE/INSTALL.TXT  


On Solaris, the command is:

dd if=kern.flp of=/dev/rdiskette0 bs=18k
(or mfsroot.flp), etc.

Worth mentioning

How-To-Repeat:      Buy a sparcstation.  Try to install FreeBSD on the SunPCi card

Comment 1 Bruce A. Mah freebsd_committer

2002-03-01 23:59:35 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->bmah

I'll look into this.

Comment 2 Bruce A. Mah freebsd_committer

2002-03-09 16:45:46 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->feedback

Finally got around to looking at this.  Do I really need the bs=18k 
option to dd(1) for it to work?  It's been awhile since I tried this 
on Solaris but I don't remember needing this option.  Thanks!

Comment 3 Bruce A. Mah freebsd_committer

2002-08-12 16:52:18 UTC

State Changed
From-To: feedback->closed

Feedback timeout.  I'll be happy to re-open this at a later date if 
it's called for.