Re: My first Linux crash
On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 21:09, Robert Ian Smit wrote:
> Tonight I tried to copy the contents of a cdrom to a local
> filesytem as root.
>
> I was able to mount the cdrom and use tab-completion to get to the
> directory on the cdrom using cp. However after entering, the system
> crashed (leds on keyboard flashing, hard boot required).
>
> After booting I took out the cdrom, cleaned it and tried again. No
> problems this time.
>
> Is there anything I can do, to avoid this in the future? If an
> ordinary user had issued the command, would the result be the same?
>
> It's not really a very big issue, but I was amazed to see this
> happen?
What kind of mobo & chipset do you have? A couple of years ago,
there were occasional issues with copying large (100MB+) files
on Athlon+VIA systems. (My vt82c686b board is supposed to be afflicted,
but I've never had the problem.)
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