On Wed, Apr 13, 2011, at 07:13:13 -0500, Mark Kane wrote: > One thing to add is that the documentation I'm going off of was > written back in 2008 and specifically mentions doing this > successfully from Linux (though not sure which distro the author had > used). I would think that if it worked back then with whatever > dd/coreutils version was available that it should certainly work with > today's coreutils. The dd command itself also seems fairly simple and > not taking advantage of special features that might be newly > available. > > Just to see what would happen, I just grabbed an old CentOS release > from 2008 (4.7 with coreutils 5.2.1). It worked correctly there just > like with Arch 2010.05.
Okay, another twist... I suppose I should have tested this before for thoroughness, but in Debian Lenny it works! So to summarize: # dd if=image.img of=/dev/sda bs=1M Debian Etch (coreutils 5.97-5.3): Fail Debian Lenny (coreutils 6.10-6): Success Debian Squeeze (coreutils 8.5-1): Fail CentOS 4.7 (coretuils 5.2.1): Success Arch Linux 2010.05 (coreutils 8.5-2): Success Another question would be what the difference is between coreutils 8.5-1 (Squeeze where it fails) and 8.5-2 (Arch where it works). Is there a component other than coreutils/dd which might affect this? It seems like such a minor version difference between coreutils 8.5-1 and 8.5-2 shouldn't cause a huge difference in behavior. Thanks, -Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110419194606.477d9...@mkproductions.org
