On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 02:46:36PM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > >dd is crashing my computer. I'm trying to write floppy disk boot images, > >with > > > >dd if=whatever.img of=/dev/fd0 > >Any ideas? > Try specifying the block size. You can try: > > dd if=/some/image of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k (all at once) > dd if=/some/image of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k (should get 1440 writes) > > You get the idea. I'd try the second one and see where it poops out. If the above does not work... Check the obvious, do: "stat /dev/fd0" and "ls -l /dev/fd0" "stat /some/image and "ls -l /some/image" Also dd if=/some/image of=/dev/null -- T o m M i t c h e l l /dev/null the ultimate in secure storage.
