dd to floppies broken?

Leo Bicknell bicknell at ufp.org
Sun Aug 24 16:42:57 PDT 2003


In a message written on Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 01:04:08PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> Since FreeBSD 4.0 we haven't had block devices.  rfd0 is an alias for fd0
> now.  You also don't need to specify the 'c' partition as the 'fd0' is
> already the entire media device -- rather than just the FreeBSD portion
> of it.

Thanks for the info.  I figured out what worked back with 0.8 NetBSD and
have stuck with it ever since. :)

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