[TriLUG] installing m0n0wall

[Aaron S. Joyner]

Jason Tower wrote:

>On Thursday 13 January 2005 23:45, Jason Tower wrote:
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>>we found the reason the our m0n0wall installation wasn't working on
>>our test box tonight.  the downloaded disk image is actually gzipped,
>>unfortunately though the filename doesn't reflect that.  therefore
>>what we tried didn't result in a bootable CF card:
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>>dd if=generic-pc-xxx.img | dd of=/dev/hdX
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>oops, that should read 'dd if=generic-pc-xxx.img of=/dev/hdX'
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Although I was going to comment that it's really poor usage, your first 
statement would actually work.  :)  If if or of aren't specified, they 
default to standard out.  Using a pipe involves about 4 extra buffers 
and a whole second dd process being involved, but the results would 
probably be similar in terms of real world performance.

Aaron S. Joyner