On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 07:35:46AM +0200, Joerg Friedrich wrote: > On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Randolph Chung wrote: > > > Other people have managed to install 2.2.12, so I suspect either you had bad > > luck with your floppies, or you have a bad floppy drive :( > > > > after you dd the disk, try doing a cmp between the image and your floppy > > > > e.g. cmp /dev/fd0 rescue.bin > > Yes I did. There was no problem. But I was surprised that this compare > takes just 2 or 3 seconds. ? In this case you did a useless compare with the contents of the buffer cache. Eject the floppy physically and insert it again, then to the cmp. What I do is: dd if=rescue1440.bin of=/dev/fd0 bs=18k eject and reinsert floppy md5sum /dev/fd0 rescue1440.bin The two lines from md5sum are easily beeing checked to be identical. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the "Plug" almost always works. --unknown source
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