[plug] boot from stick

[Ishwor Gurung]

2010/1/13 Ishwor Gurung <ishwor.gurung at gmail.com>:
> 2010/1/13 Daniel J. Axtens <danielax at gmail.com>:
>>> It should have been-
>>> $ dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb count=512 (only 512 bytes)
>>
>> That (probably) doesn't do what you think it does.
>
> Yep you're right :)
>
>> dd works in "blocks" of bytes, and usually, 1 block != 1 byte. Your
>> command would have copied 512 blocks. For example, on my Mac, a block
>> is 512 bytes by default so that command would have copied 512*512 =
>> 262144 bytes = 256 KB (KiB? 256 lots of 1024 bytes, whatever we call
>> that these days).
>
> Oh the joy of excessive soda :)  I can't believe I wrote that!
>
> KB is Kilo-byte and Kb is Kilo-bit, KiB is Kibi-bit anyhow just sayin'.. :)
> 1 kibibyte = 210 bytes = 1,024 bytes (from wikipedia)
That's 2^10 bytes btw (at the expense of writing a rich text :P)
[...]

--
Regards
Ishwor Gurung
Key id:0xa98db35e
Key fingerprint:FBEF 0D69 6DE1 C72B A5A8  35FE 5A9B F3BB 4E5E 17B5