FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Announcement - Typo

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Mon Oct 11 11:52:44 UTC 2010


On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 4:36 AM, Ian Smith <smithi at nimnet.asn.au> wrote:
> 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.

Thank you, my mistake then :-)  When I have closer contact with low
level USB programming I will try to find the ratinale :-) :-)

Best regards,

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