home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!hydra!klaava!wirzeniu
- From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Can I use dd on my UNIX system instead of Rawrite?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.191330.1423@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 19:13:30 GMT
- References: <1992Aug11.192753.8568@dg-rtp.dg.com> <1992Aug12.043754.21260@ennews.eas.asu.edu> <1992Aug12.053539.14825@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- Lines: 14
-
- smace@nyx.cs.du.edu (Scott Mace) writes:
- >don't forget you need to do dd bs=8192 if=Image of=/dev/PS0
- >
- >bs = bootsector and you need this for the kernel boot disk in order for
- >it to work. I don't no what will happen if you don't use the 'bs'
- >option.
-
- The bs option to dd specifies the number of bytes that it reads or
- writes at a time. bs=8192 means that it reads and writes 8 kB at a
- time. It has nothing to do with the boot sector. The only thing that
- will happen is that the copy _may_ work at a different speed.
-
- --
- Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi
-