FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Announcement - Typo
Ian Smith
smithi at nimnet.asn.au
Fri Oct 8 04:36:27 UTC 2010
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 07:59:21PM +0000, 1 0 wrote:
> > There is a typo in FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Announcement:
> >
> > # dd if=8.1-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/da0 bs=10240 conv=sync
> >
> > should be
> >
> > # dd if=8.1-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/da0 bs=1024k conv=sync
>
> AFAIK, this isn't a typo.
10240 is correct (10KiB), but I don't know the rationale for that size.
The typo is that, as per the release announcement, all of the filenames
are now preceded by 'FreeBSD-'. I let Ken know ages ago, but suppose I
should have submitted a PR ..
cheers, Ian
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