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| author | Miod Vallat <miod@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2001-10-14 20:59:34 +0000 |
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| committer | Miod Vallat <miod@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2001-10-14 20:59:34 +0000 |
| commit | 2d65e860643deafcf22ecea061275f80ee96011c (patch) | |
| tree | 9be1285fea48358e0f4c1018a17e6f2bdeba9f63 | |
| parent | 0c0955400ac9578bc30933fc8f417b063a489871 (diff) | |
When creating floppies under Solaris, you can avoid killing vold if you
use the magic device filename.
Pointed out by matthieu@.
| -rw-r--r-- | distrib/notes/m4.common | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/distrib/notes/m4.common b/distrib/notes/m4.common index 064c81b9e1e..01d36c6cbbb 100644 --- a/distrib/notes/m4.common +++ b/distrib/notes/m4.common @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ dnl -dnl $OpenBSD: m4.common,v 1.26 2001/10/14 18:27:57 miod Exp $ +dnl $OpenBSD: m4.common,v 1.27 2001/10/14 20:59:33 miod Exp $ dnl dnl simulate an include path with a macro 'includeit'. define(`includeit',`sinclude('INCLUDE/`$1)sinclude('INCLUDE/../`$1)')dnl @@ -614,8 +614,9 @@ define({:-OpenBSDXferFloppyFromUNIX-:}, dd if=floppy{:--:}OSrev.fs of=/dev/rfd0c bs=36b and, under Solaris: dd if=floppy{:--:}OSrev.fs of=/dev/rdiskette0 bs=36b - but you may need to turn off the volume management daemon, vold(1M), - before attempting the copy. + unless the volume management daemon, vold(1M), is running, in + which case the following command is preferable: + dd if=floppy{:--:}OSrev.fs of=/vol/dev/rdiskette0 bs=36b If you are using another operating system, you may have to adapt this to conform to local naming conventions for the floppy and |