Re: ftp install - can't dd pcmciadd.img

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On Tue, 6 May 2003, Harry Putnam wrote:

> Matthew Saltzman <mjs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Can you check the MD5 sums on the images?  All the images on my ISO are
> > the same size.  The pcmciadd.img file has checksum
> >
> > 	d431e26030840fa0bed51d69e8278c19  pcmciadd.img
> >
> >> Or have other suggestions.
> >
> > Just for grins, try "dd if=new_pcmciadd.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k".  It
> > seemed to work for me.
>
> The md5 sum check out.  Same as what you posted.
> Strangely, adding the bs=1440k seems to make it work.
>
> root # dd if=pcmciadd.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k
> 1+0 records in
> 1+0 records out
>
> I've never seen that kind of count on records before though, further
> it isn't required on the bootdisk.img.

I don't know why the boot disk works without and this one doesn't, but the
reason for the record count is that you're copying the whole image as a
single record of blocksize 1440k (or, not coincidentally, 1474560 bytes,
which is the image file size).

>
> But anyway.. thanks.  That seems to make it work ok.
>
>
>
>

-- 
		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs@xxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs





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