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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wupost!gumby!yale!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!math.fu-berlin.de!news.netmbx.de!Germany.EU.net!tools!ws From: ws@tools.de (Wolfgang Solfrank) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Creating 386BSD bootable using a SUN Date: 14 Nov 92 18:49:33 Organization: TooLs GmbH, Bonn, Germany Lines: 16 Message-ID: <WS.92Nov14184933@kurt.tools.de> References: <1992Nov11.162225.20510@sunova.ssc.gov> <1992Nov13.073633.8338@autelca.ascom.ch> <GDAY.92Nov13112228@ignatz.inde.bc.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: kurt.tools.de In-reply-to: gday@ignatz.inde.bc.ca's message of Fri, 13 Nov 1992 19:22:28 GMT In article <GDAY.92Nov13112228@ignatz.inde.bc.ca> gday@ignatz.inde.bc.ca (Gordon Day) writes: Actually, you will _have_ to use the dd command (cp requires a file system :-). Be prepared to wait quite a while, however (e.g. 3-5 minutes). Why should you? % cp dist.fs /dev/fd0 should work just fine (the time will be about 70 seconds). It was one of the greatest things unix brought to us that devices can be accessed just like any other file. -- ws@tools.de (Wolfgang Solfrank, TooLs GmbH) +49-228-985800