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.) -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. mailto:ron.l.johnson@;cox.net | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | | | | "they love our milk and honey, but preach about another | | way of living" | | Merle Haggard, "The Fighting Side Of Me" | +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
