On Wed 27 Jul 2011 at 07:49:09 -0400, shawn wilson wrote: > BTW, is there a command to see if an ISO can be dd'd to a drive like that > and work? Ie, if I download the latest puppy, or slack, or or cent, or > vyatta, or bill and Ted's most excellent linux distro ISO image, is there a > better way to find out than just testing to see?
desktop:/home/brian# fdisk -l mini.iso You must set cylinders. You can do this from the extra functions menu. Disk mini.iso: 0 MB, 0 bytes 64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 0 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes Disk identifier: 0x1a5eb4e6 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System mini.iso1 * 1 10 10240 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS mini.iso2 11 17 7168 1 FAT12 desktop:/home/brian# fdisk -l tinycore_3.4.1.iso Disk tinycore_3.4.1.iso: 0 MB, 0 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 0 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk tinycore_3.4.1.iso doesn't contain a valid partition table mini.iso is an isohybrid. tinycore_3.4.1.iso isn't, but may be converted to one with the isohybrid command from the syslinux package. I wouldn't count on isohybrid working with all isos. -- 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/20110727211817.GJ29162@desktop
