Re: partroot-1.6.1 / 1.6.2.

[CS Miller]

On Sunday 03 November 2002 15:04, you wrote\n%s:
> Hi,
> 
>   I'm running FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE and I've been trying to write the
> images to floppies.  The first disk (partboot.img) work just fine when I
> run dd if=partboot.img of=/dev/fd0 but when I try and copy the root
> images (either 1.6.1 or 1.6.2) I receive the following:
> 
> # dd if=partroot-1.6.2.img of=/dev/fd0
> dd: /dev/fd0: Invalid argument
> 2328+1 records in
> 2328+0 records out
> 1191936 bytes transferred in 41.879547 secs (28461 bytes/sec)
> #
> 
>   From here if I try and boot with the first disk it all goes fine but
> when I insert the second disk it appears to find a compressed image but
> after a while it fails with a different error each time (e.g. invalid
> compressed image).
> 
>   Any suggestions?
Is 1,191,936 the size of the image file? My copy (1.6..2) is  1,192,053.  If 
not the floppy may be bad.

To check, try 
fc partroot-1.6.2.img /dev/fd0  (don't worry about partroot being shorter 
than the floppy, but worry about any other errors).

Otherwise, is the image valid? do
file -z on it, which should report


bash-2.05a$ file -z partroot-1.6.2.img
partroot-1.6.2.img: Linux rev 1.0 ext2 filesystem data (gzip compressed data, 
deflated, original filename, `parted.img', last modified: Sat Jul  6 02:00:06 
2002, max compression, os: Unix)
bash-2.05a$

Then try mounting the file
cp partroot-1.6.2.img partroot-1.6.2.img.gz
gzip -d partroot-1.6.2.img.gz
mount  ./partroot-1.6.2.img /floppy -t ext -o loop

This should mount a linux root disk on /mount/floopy. The mount options are 
correct for Linux, might be different for *BSD.

You might also want to try
fsck ./partroot.img  
to see if the file is OK.

HTH
CS Miller





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