dd is crashing my computer. I'm trying to write floppy disk boot images, with
dd if=whatever.img of=/dev/fd0
and invariably my system freezes. Can't ctrl-alt-f1, can't alt-tab, can't anything. Mouse pointer disappears, nothing moves. All I can do is cycle power.
As far as I can tell, everything else about the floppy is working. I can format disks and read and write them, I can read and write DOS-formatted disks, etc.
In case it matters, the images I'm writing are mainly boot floppy images from the Mandrake Linux 10 Community Edition install (CD 1). I know the CD they come from burned OK; the checksums work out and I can boot from it, etc. But just in case it had anything to do with the images themselves, I took a Debian boot floppy, wrote it to disk with
dd if=/dev/fd0 of=debian.boot.img
(which worked fine). Then I tried to write it back to another disk, with the reverse, and my computer froze. So even dd images I create on this FC 1 computer are crashing it.
Any ideas?
Thanks again, Matt
