On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Mark Kane <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011, at 09:45:44 +0800, Huang, Tao wrote: >> what do u mean by "live running file system"? >> a mounted file system? > > Yes. Debian is installed and running on sda and I am trying to > overwrite the current installation with this disk image.
to my understanding, writing with dd on a mounted device leads to unpredictable results, and never guarantees to work. and i think your problem was not caused by differences in dd builds, it was different behaviours of the systems on a modified mounted root partition. Cheers, Tao -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
