The following reply was made to PR install/13749; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Mike M. Volokhov" <mishka@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: PR/13749 CVS commit: src/distrib/notes
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 22:53:35 +0000 (UTC)

 Module Name:	src
 Committed By:	mishka
 Date:		Sat Nov 25 22:53:35 UTC 2006
 
 Modified Files:
 	src/distrib/notes/alpha: install
 	src/distrib/notes/atari: xfer
 	src/distrib/notes/common: sysinst
 	src/distrib/notes/hp300: prep
 	src/distrib/notes/mvme68k: install xfer
 	src/distrib/notes/sparc: install
 	src/distrib/notes/sparc64: install
 	src/distrib/notes/sun2: install
 	src/distrib/notes/sun3: install
 	src/distrib/notes/vax: xfer
 
 Log Message:
 PR/13749 - Incorrect options specified for dd(1) in tape installs.
 
 Cleanup dd options accordingly to the following policy:
     1) put if, of, bs, conv in this order
     2) for reading/writing from/to disk don't use sync
     4) reading from tape - use sync
     3) writing to tape - use osync
 
 Noted by Don Yuniskis (auryn at gci-net.com) via install/13749. Thanks!
 Reviewed by <martin>. Thank you!
 
 
 To generate a diff of this commit:
 cvs rdiff -r1.30 -r1.31 src/distrib/notes/alpha/install
 cvs rdiff -r1.14 -r1.15 src/distrib/notes/atari/xfer
 cvs rdiff -r1.76 -r1.77 src/distrib/notes/common/sysinst
 cvs rdiff -r1.19 -r1.20 src/distrib/notes/hp300/prep
 cvs rdiff -r1.17 -r1.18 src/distrib/notes/mvme68k/install
 cvs rdiff -r1.15 -r1.16 src/distrib/notes/mvme68k/xfer
 cvs rdiff -r1.50 -r1.51 src/distrib/notes/sparc/install
 cvs rdiff -r1.25 -r1.26 src/distrib/notes/sparc64/install
 cvs rdiff -r1.4 -r1.5 src/distrib/notes/sun2/install
 cvs rdiff -r1.12 -r1.13 src/distrib/notes/sun3/install
 cvs rdiff -r1.11 -r1.12 src/distrib/notes/vax/xfer
 
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