failed memstick install

[Warren Block]

On Tue, 1 Apr 2014, Eric Roseman wrote:

> The article suggests to 'dd' the image with
>
>  dd if=8.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/sdf bs=10240 conv=sync
>
> In the official handbook,
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/bsdinstall-pre.html
> the advice is to dd the image with:
>
>  dd if=FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img of=/dev/da0 bs=64k
>
> is the handbook incorrect?

No, either will work.  The current version in the Handbook uses larger 
block sizes for a faster copy.