> > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rad3 count=20 > > Can anyone explain the sense of that? > > Doesnt really make sense, but i guess its used to somewhat clear the > bootsector? Shouldnt be neccessary since its beeing rewritten > anyway by > the command afterwards which writes the dump to the card incl. > bootsector.
It's quite typical in the Free/Net/OpenBSD world! :) It clears the boot sector and DOS partition map so that the Unix map will be found and processed correctly. _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
