Re: dd to unused partition (Hey! someone stole my foot-shooting gun!)

2005-07-12 Thread Lee Harr
Oh, and the cd drive is not bootable. So, I want to boot the cd image from the hard drive, and use the cd drive for the install after it boots. I dont think you can just copy CD image to slice and make it boot :-( Hmm... Now that I think about it, maybe what I did before was to use the

Re: dd to unused partition (Hey! someone stole my foot-shooting gun!)

2005-07-11 Thread Mario Hoerich
# Lee Harr: dd if=iso of=/dev/ad0s1 but what I am getting now is ... dscheck(#ad/0x22): fixlabel: invalid magic fixlabel: invalid magic dd: /dev/ad0s1: Read-only filesystem This error isn't new, it just, well, doesn't happen very often: kern/subr_diskslice.c: | static char * |

Re: dd to unused partition (Hey! someone stole my foot-shooting gun!)

2005-07-11 Thread Lee Harr
dd if=iso of=/dev/ad0s1 dd: /dev/ad0s1: Read-only filesystem According to URL:http://makeashorterlink.com/?S37C2186B[1] a workaround might be using dd if=/dev/foo of=/dev/ad0 oseek=63 Ah. Ok. That should have been obvious :oP What about those first few bytes, though? I think I am not

dd to unused partition (Hey! someone stole my foot-shooting gun!)

2005-07-10 Thread Lee Harr
I am sure a used to be able to do this ... What I want to do is copy an iso image to a disk partition so I can boot from it and use that to install. Something along the lines of dd if=iso of=/dev/ad0s1 but what I am getting now is ... dscheck(#ad/0x22): fixlabel: invalid magic fixlabel:

Re: dd to unused partition (Hey! someone stole my foot-shooting gun!)

2005-07-10 Thread Lee Harr
dd if=iso of=/dev/ad0s1 dd: /dev/ad0s1: Read-only filesystem I guess I can boot from the install floppies and use the fixit floppy Ok. I will go that route, but now I am wondering why has my favorite foot-blaster been taken away? And... for future reference, how can I get around the

Re: dd to unused partition (Hey! someone stole my foot-shooting gun!)

2005-07-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lee Harr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: dd if=iso of=/dev/ad0s1 dd: /dev/ad0s1: Read-only filesystem I guess I can boot from the install floppies and use the fixit floppy Ok. I will go that route, but now I am wondering why has my favorite foot-blaster been taken away? And... for future

Re: dd to unused partition (Hey! someone stole my foot-shooting gun!)

2005-07-10 Thread Lee Harr
dd if=iso of=/dev/ad0s1 dd: /dev/ad0s1: Read-only filesystem I just tried the same thing from the fixit floppy, and I get the same message about ad0s1 being a Read-only filesystem What am I missing here? Raised securelevel? Well... I am not sure why the securelevel would be raised by