> Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 23:13:28 +0200 > From: Daniel Roesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 11:39:34AM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote: > > It clears the boot sector and DOS partition map so that the > > Unix map will be found and processed correctly. > > But that's done by dd'ing the image to the flash anyway?!
Not quite. FreeBSD (the OS under Junos) has a dd(1) that understands normal BIOS type disk partitions (which FreeBSD call slices) in an attempt to prevent the serious foot shooting possible with dd. Not that it really succeeds. I have found it quite easy to create a disaster with FreeBSD and dd(1). :-( I also had to use dump/restore to back up my root partition on my old FreeBSD V3 system with a pair of 13 GB drives. They were from different vendors and had slightly different geometries. dd(1) insisted that I could not do the operation I wanted (the whole disk) between them, so I had to do it partition at a time. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751
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