Peter Van Loock wrote: > I used different cd's, one with only large files, one with only small files, > one mixed. It appears that copying 2 large (about 5 megabyte) files is not > possible, the second 'cp' hangs. When copying small files, sometimes hundreds > of files get copied, but eventually the command hangs. > > After mounting the cd, dmesg shows the usual message (iso9660 filesystem) and > after that nothing else is added. > The driver for the cd is part of the kernel and not loaded as a module. In > fact, no modules at all are loaded. > > To confirm your suspicion about the kernel: > I installed the 2.6.8 kernel and with that the problem no longer exists. Every > file gets copied successfully. I'm reassiging this bug to the kernel, and I hope that someone can get d-i working on hppa with a 2.6 kernel -- especially since it's supposed to fix the slow fork() problem too.. Jeff, you made the linux-kernel-di-hppa-2.6 package, is there any hope of getting usable d-i media based on that soon? -- see shy jo
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