Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 10:41:21 -0600 From: Charlie & <root@colnta.acns.ab.ca> To: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> Cc: Kristof Pap <kristof_pap@hotmail.com>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Typo in the installation guide Message-ID: <20010723104121.A81347@colnta.acns.ab.ca> In-Reply-To: <20010723145140.394FA3E28@bazooka.unixfreak.org>; from dima@unixfreak.org on Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 07:51:40AM -0700 References: <F2116EBSotwBP8xidGV00003fa9@hotmail.com> <20010723145140.394FA3E28@bazooka.unixfreak.org>
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On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 07:51:40AM -0700, Dima Dorfman wrote: > Fixed, thanks! > > "Kristof Pap" <kristof_pap@hotmail.com> writes: > > Hello > > > > I was just browsing the online version of the installation guide: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-guide. > > html > > and found that where it is talking about the installation floppies > > (2.2.1.1 Creating the Installation Floppies), in the last paragraph of > > the 3rd point (3. Write the image files to the floppy disks), the first > > two sentences are these: > > > > On FreeBSD /dev/fd0 refers to the first floppy disk (the A: > > drive). /dev/rfd1 would be the B: drive, and so on. Actually, if you are dd'ing the floppy image I believe you should be using rfd0, and not fd0. So the typeo is on the first fd0 and not on rfd1. This may not be the case anymore, but I do remember that using fd0 instead of rfd0 could cause a panic on a bad or write-protected floppy. Good luck. Chad To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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