26 Apr
2006
26 Apr
'06
1:04 p.m.
At 03:33 PM 4/26/2006 -0400, der Mouse wrote:
Yes, you are probably correct on this, even though it is the CD version
instead of the floppy version. I believe that the traditional NetBSD 'dd'
does include this feature. The reason that I'm using the installation
version is that I am using on a PC chassis which is normally used to
run Windows and am removing the boot drive and replacing it with the
two drives to be copied. I then just boot the system from CD and go.
When I run
'dd if=/dev/rwd0d of=/dev/rwd1d bs=64k conv=noerror' on
NetBSD, the command reports 'dd: conv option disabled' and exits.
I suspect this is because you're using the shell-out option frokm the
installer. On the installer, most programs are very stripped down, to
make everything fit on two floppies. In short, this is not "NetBSD's dd" but
"NetBSD's installer's dd".
What you need is a non-stripped-down dd binary, and you won't find that
on the installer. (If you are using the CD image, it's there, but not
in a very usable form - it's in the "base" binary set, and while it can
in principle be extracted from it, it's midly messy to do so.)
I see.
--tom