On Mon, Apr 25, 2011, at 11:02:40 +0800, Huang, Tao wrote: > to my understanding, writing with dd on a mounted device leads to > unpredictable results, and never guarantees to work.
I understand what you mean but it does work 100% of the time on the versions I mentioned including Lenny, just not Etch where I was wanting it to or even the current Squeeze release. > 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. That makes sense. Thanks again for your input, -Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]

