svn commit: r52774 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall

Benjamin Kaduk <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.cvs.doc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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>
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