Re: dd on Familiar 0.8.4 doesn't accept "1K" as a value for "bs" option

Hello Erik,

You don't need to apologize. I think the development crew is doing a
great job.

I just try to work with the thing I have :D

I'll go and fetch a cheap card reader in the store, because I screwed up
flashing the replacement bootloader anyways... (So if my "bs=1024" isn't
valid, it's already too late now :p)

Greetings,
Niels R.

On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 10:13 -0800, Erik Hovland wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 06:56:26PM +0100, l:x wrote:
> > The problem occured when trying to dump the second bootloader from the
> > CF to a file using "dd if=/dev/hda of=2ndstage.rescue bs=1K count=1280".
> > This returned "dd: Invalid number '1K'".
> >
> > So I checked the manual and it states that you can use a number followed
> > by K, so I don't get it why it returns an error.
> >
> > I suppose that 1K equals 1024, so I used the following command instead:
> > "dd if=/dev/hda of=2ndstage.rescue bs=1024 count=1280".
> >
> > I hope this has the same result... Can anyone confirm this, please?
>
> dd is part of busybox. A suite of Unix utilities designed for size more
> then complete functionality. I am pretty sure that the dd in busybox was
> not compiled for the use of unit abbreviations.
>
> Sorry for the inconvenience. It is sometimes difficult to fit all of the
> utilities onto a distribution for handhelds.
>
> E
>
Received on Sat Feb 17 2007 - 13:26:43 EST