Sluggers,
I've always been able to make a copy of a cd or floppy onto the hard disk by using dd. I.E
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=myimage.iso
I've been trying to do this with some FC3 cd's but after copying about 630Mb the
process starts throwing messages up onto the console about bad block read's. This goes on for several minutes and trying to kill the dd process doesn't seem to work, though it eventually dies. When I mount the resulting .iso images with -o loop they appear ok and I can see all the directories and file names but if I try to copy an .rpm from the mounted file system it's no good. So obviously the cd's are dud right!
BUT! I've just done an install of a working system from the very same CD's and even ran through the little check media utility at the start which said the CD's were OK.
What give's?
Pete
P.S I've tried using dd's bs=512, 1024 and 2048 but the result is unchanged.
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