Subject: Re: miniroot for NetBSD/i386?
To: Igor Sobrado <igor@string1.ciencias.uniovi.es>
From: Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@cs.stevens.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/10/2005 20:51:28 
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005, Igor Sobrado wrote:
>> ===>	# cat <boot-big.fs >/dev/wd0b
> [...]
>
> Just curious... why a cat(1) instead of a "dd if=boot-big.fs of=/dev/..."?
> dd(1) seems more robust to raw copy filesystems to/from drives.

Try using tab completion with dd. :)
No idea what you mwan about robustness...


   - Hubert