svn commit: r52774 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall
Benjamin Kaduk <[email protected]>
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Author: bjk Date: Sat Jan 19 19:22:30 2019 New Revision: 52774 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/52774 Log: Attempt to cope with dd's non-portable bs= constructs FreeBSD accepts both uppercase and lowercase blocksize modifiers, whereas Mac OS and Linux disagree on what case to use. Reported by: Rob Hulley <[email protected]> Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall/chapter.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall/chapter.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall/chapter.xml Fri Jan 18 13:52:37 2019 (r52773) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall/chapter.xml Sat Jan 19 19:22:30 2019 (r52774) @@ -585,7 +585,10 @@ <acronym>USB</acronym> stick is not mounted and that the device name is for the disk, not a partition. Some operating systems might require this command to be run - with &man.sudo.8;. Systems like &linux; might buffer + with &man.sudo.8;. The &man.dd.1; syntax varies slightly + across different platforms; for example, &macos; requires + a lower-case <option>bs=1m</option>. + Systems like &linux; might buffer writes. To force all writes to complete, use &man.sync.8;.</para> </step> _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-doc-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"