Handbook wrong code mistake

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Sun Nov 15 00:36:44 UTC 2015


On Sat, 14 Nov 2015, Adam Vande More wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Ömer Gülmen <freebsd-doc at freebsd.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi dude
>>
>> 2.3.1.1. Writing an Image File to USB
>>
>> you wrote as:# dd if=FreeBSD-10.2-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/da0
>> bs=1m conv=sync
>>
>>  But it has to be on linux "bs=1M" not "bs=1m". Change it with capital
>> one. Do not understand? inform me ;)
>>
>>
> The command you reference is meant to be run on FreeBSD systems.  If you
> have a different operating system, you'll have to adjust accordingly.

Yes, but the sentence leading up to it says "The dd(1) command-line 
utility is available on BSD, Linux®, and Mac OS® systems."

So for maximum compatibility, we might as well change to an uppercase M. 
Either way works on FreeBSD.


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