Not sure how this happened but it was not meant for you guys. It is
good info for those of us who are living it.
On 4/14/25 7:57 PM, Maureen Thomas wrote:
Excellent read.
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Excellent read.
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Chaos
The American oligarchy is petrified by Trump’s economic chaos but
careful not to criticize
Common Hardware Reference Platform (CHRP), for IBM PowerPC
HP-PA via PALO header version 4
HP-PA via PALO header version 5
DEC Alpha SRM boot sector, for Alpha architecture
Some of these architectures are decommissioned in Debian meanwhile.
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Thomas
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Thomas
links to the discussion which led to the removal:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1099864
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Thomas
thenticated themselves by gpg --verify or alike.
If i'd knew a good solution then i'd post it to
debian...@lists.debian.org and be obstinate until i get a good answer.
But as it is, i cannot do more than offer human help and above wiki
page.
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Thomas
e with
uncompromised keys. See the classic https://xkcd.com/2347/ )
Now we are done and look like real C programmers: Dirty but contented.
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Thomas
d files SHA512SUM
and SHA512SUM.sign and a successful gpg --verify run.
But i cannot give advice how to achieve this in a MS-Windows
environment.
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Thomas
====
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Thomas
--verify run.
Knowing whether the files SHA512SUMS.sign and SHA512SUMS are the same
as the copies on my computer would enable us to judge which of the
above reasons is present.
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Thomas
le size of a storage device with the confirmatation
that it is an optical drive with a loaded medium.
(Everything else will probably yield errno 9 "Bad file descriptor".)
blkid comes to my mind:
https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=package%3Autil-linux+CDROM_LAST_WRITTEN
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Thomas
S.sign are
fb3d950c9472f35bd06add950ccfe991
0095bd988c97a7bd0400704ffd3d0fe64a33057b5eaed7530973fac4e039cc366bc5c144413cdb48a591fa5a5d9bd8240721d797964ca453b5981d90ed8e1a13
So which one of your downloaded SHA512SUMS* files deviates from these ?
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Thomas
on, perform
-drive_class clear_list caution
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Thomas
can spoil not
more than one data file (and its hardlink siblings, like with the
three vmlinuz files in the netinst ISO).
With debian-11.2.0-amd64-DVD-2.iso the size of the directory tree
is 6 MB. Multiplied by 21 DVD ISOs for 12.10.0 = ~ 126 MB.
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Thomas
O
content into a bootable FAT filesystem on the storage device and copy
the pool tree into that filesystem.
However, filling the pool is topic of several tools
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianRepository/Setup
I myself would not want to do either. So i used my xorriso-fu for the
merge_debian_isos script.
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Thomas
ys/class/dmi/id/product_name
> /sys/class/dmi/id/product_serial
A start for such an upstream project could be a program which takes
orders from the user to look up particular information from these files.
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Thomas
here are 2 open security issues in trixie."
Further there are
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/python3.12
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/python3.13
So python seems to be too agile for getting bugs fixed in its older
versions.
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Thomas
il-linux+ioctl.*BLKGETSIZE&page=3
(One has to go to the end of the last page to find the code which
does the work. The preceding matches are i18n noise.)
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Thomas
nly a simple 31-bit ceiling as suspect.
It's not a 32-bit rollover where the result remainder of this division
would have to be near to 0 , 1/2 or 1:
8001563222016 / 512 / 4294967296 = 7.277379356324673
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Thomas
Hi,
correction of the usual copy+paste error:
I wrote:
> 8001563222016 / 512 / 4294967296 = 7.277379356324673
The result stems from a different calculation with 2 exp 31.
With 2 exp 32 it is 3.638689678162337 .
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Thomas
> commercial software frequently performs
> full-disk scan 'for the sake of user security'.
I wonder what it will say about a large file with obscure content ...
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Thomas
mi wrote:
> I have found quite a lot of projects seem to meet this function, but
> seems that those projects are quite unmature.
Would you mind to share a few project names and/or web links ?
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Thomas
Thank you all for your help. I have copied your answers into a file for
me to keep on hand when it happens again. Again, thank you all for your
help for this great grandmother.
Moe
Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 20:24:36 -0500, Maureen Thomas wrote:
I am running Debian 12 fulled updated. I keep getting a message saying that
my /var is almost full. What can I safely delete to make more room for it.
It is an HP Desktop Mo1-F3xxx, 8gb ram, Realtec Audio, AMD Ryzen 5 5600G. I
also have a
There are 15 files in Var and the biggest one is the cache file. Is it
safe to get rid of the contents of the whole file. It takes up 57% of
the drive.
On 3/6/25 9:00 PM, Eben King wrote:
On 3/6/25 20:24, Maureen Thomas wrote:
I am running Debian 12 fulled updated. I keep getting a
I am running Debian 12 fulled updated. I keep getting a message saying
that my /var is almost full. What can I safely delete to make more room
for it. It is an HP Desktop Mo1-F3xxx, 8gb ram, Realtec Audio, AMD
Ryzen 5 5600G. I also have a 2TB Seagate HD plugged in for backups.
Any help will
is only one such drive.
Consider to give the desired drive device file explicitely:
cdrskin dev=/dev/sr0 -eject
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Thomas
rriso_indev_eject.log
Please send the file to me in private in order not to flood the list.
I will then inspect it and report if i find something enlightening.
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Thomas
.
Thomas George
to boot the first stage and
was able to use the CD-ROM with the ISO filesystem.
Obviously the creator of the MS-DOS ISO did not expect that the boot
image has to be put on a real floppy, or else the boot image would be
a named file in the ISO 9660 filesystem tree.
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Thomas
the HP.
Moe
On 1/28/25 9:58 PM, David Christensen wrote:
On 1/26/25 17:11, Maureen Thomas wrote:
I am using an updated Debian 12 with Thurderbird and Firefox. Since
the updated firefox I can not use it as it freezes my computer to
the point that I have to hold the off button on the computer for
1/27/25 3:26 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
On Sun, Jan 26, 2025 at 08:11:48PM -0500, Maureen Thomas wrote:
I am using an updated Debian 12 with Thurderbird and Firefox. Since the
updated firefox I can not use it as it freezes my computer to the point that
I have to hold the off button on the com
I am using an updated Debian 12 with Thurderbird and Firefox. Since the
updated firefox I can not use it as it freezes my computer to the point
that I have to hold the off button on the computer for about 10 seconds
before it turns off. I am using Chrominum and I hate it. I have a VPN
but I s
5/01/2025 00:28, Andy Smith wrote:
Hi Thomas,
On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 06:48:08PM +0100, Thomas Anderson wrote:
ip a ->
2: enp27s0: mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast
state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether 30:9c:23:b7:48:8c brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.1.6/24 brd 192.168.
27;t work. my gateway really only worked if i turn off/on my networking.
I also think it has to be something simple, just can't seem to isolate it.
On 24/01/2025 17:30, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 17:11:06 +0100, Thomas Anderson wrote:
Here is updated version with
CR in
this will add it (just like I have done
in the network manager UI, but in both cases, i reboot without a gateway.
thanks in advance..
On 24/01/2025 13:03, Eike Lantzsch ZP5CGE / KY4PZ wrote:
Hi Thomas,
On Friday, 24 January 2025 08:35:44 GMT-4 Thomas Anderson wrote:
Hello,
I am using Debian
add it (just like I have done
in the network manager UI, but in both cases, i reboot without a gateway.
thanks in advance..
On 24/01/2025 13:03, Eike Lantzsch ZP5CGE / KY4PZ wrote:
Hi Thomas,
On Friday, 24 January 2025 08:35:44 GMT-4 Thomas Anderson wrote:
Hello,
I am using Debian 11, and no m
Hello,
I am using Debian 11, and no matter what I do, I repeated on each
reboot, I will boot into a system with no gateway set (or rather, the
"default route is 0.0.0.0," which naturally gives this device no
internet connectivity.
I am using the NetworkManager, and have a static IP set.
If
s, afio archives, blowfish
encryption, Linux kernel module ide-scsi, IDE slave devices, ...
83 % of the text describe inner details beyond installation and normal
operation.
As compensation there is no man page. :))
The one of xorriso-1.5.7 has 5993 lines.
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Thomas
from the iberian
peninsula, i would visualize it as a smiling sausage which burns at
both ends.)
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Thomas
m disk to BD.
Of course i meanwhile use xorriso for the roles of cdrecord, growisofs
and mkisofs.
I'm still backing up multi-media file collections by help of sdvdbackup.
Backups which fill dozens of media might become lengthy. So there is also
the opportunity to perform incremental backups:
http://scdbackup.webframe.org/examples.html#incremental
---
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Thomas
ums in the filesystem.
The question remains whether UDF is really an indispensable feature of
the intended backups.
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Thomas
-for_backup -disk_dev_ino on \
-assert_volid 'PROJECTS_MAIL_*' FATAL \
-dev /dev/sr0 \
-volid PROJECTS_MAIL_"$(date '+%Y_%m_%d_%H%M%S')" \
-not_leaf '*.o' -not_leaf '*.swp' \
-update_r /home/thomas/projects /projects \
-update_r
st often have
none.
> bash: kbd: command not found
The package "kbd" does not contain a program named kbd.
Try some of those in /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, or /usr/sbin in
https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/amd64/kbd/filelist
(The man page of kbdrate is listed as
/usr/share/man/man8/kbdrate.8.gz
)
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Thomas
As I am 95 and my first computer was a Royal Mcbee using punched paper
tape. VLC is ok but mostly I use mpv from a terminal
Tom
On 1/11/25 07:58, Richard Owlett wrote:
As I'm over 80 and a computer *user* since introduction via Hollerith
cards and line-printers in 60's (q.v. CORC & CUPL - BASI
ack then ...)
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Thomas
point to the International System of Units as justification for
giving us only a single-digit power of 0xA rather than a double-digit
power of 0x2.
I hope to have made my case sufficiently enough to get programmer's Teras
next time i buy a disk.
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Thomas
I also belong to the group of long time mailserver owners. I started it
way back at Debian 8, and upgraded along the way. The biggest time
requirement was at the beginning, setting up every thing properly. Since
then, I have had almost no problems at all, that couldn't be solved
reasonably quic
(Don't forget to record the output of you "make dep-pkg" runs in a file
and to store one which causes immediate "dpkg -i"-failure and one which
causes "dpkg -i" success at least once. Differences between those might
give a clue why the nvidia code fails in conftest/functions.h.)
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Thomas
ts about the reason of failure.
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Thomas
;&1 | tee -i "$HOME"/make_deb_pkg_log_2
Option -j might be unhelpful for the logging purpose, by making the
sequence of messages non-deterministic.
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Thomas
On Wed, Jan 1, 2025, at 7:21 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> Memory: 8GB
>
> I live quite happily with 8GB of RAM in several of my machines, but
> that's for machines which I've owned for more than 10 years already, so
> I think it's OK for a new machine only if you can later bump it to 16GB,
> ot
software, which I don't think I have anything (of value), that doesn't
come directly from Debian source repos =)
I like to keep things simple. I guess get started with the backup =)
Cheers.
On 26/12/2024 20:11, Andy Smith wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, Dec 26, 2024 at 07:39:23PM +0100, Thomas And
s after a re-install of the required software systems?
So, now I guess my question becomes...ultimately:
"What is the difference between upgrading my system (after remove all
non-debian apps) and simply doing a brand new, clean install??"
"Is one better than the other??
Thanks, and Happy Holidays.
Thomas Anderson
culprit is often not easy to determine when the relationship between
drive and medium is broken up.
Check whether your drive still can handle the other DVD+RW media (Sony ?).
If it appears to stay in bad mood, give it a power cycle (e.g. reboot of
the computer where it is in).
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Thomas
minutes
with 2.4x DVD+RW.
If such a run is successful, then the medium be classified by xorriso
as "blank".
After a successful run with non-zero non-ISO 9660 data it will be
"closed".
After a successful run with an ISO 9660 filesystem image, e.g.
a debian*.iso, it will be "appendable".
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en copy the ISO to its base device
file. Further make sure in the BIOS that this USB stick gets booted and
not one of the other boot entries.
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.cfg are visible in the stick's
EFI partition (hd0,msdos2) and in the stick's ISO filesystem (hd0).
If the kernel can be started and does not abort to fall back to GRUB
then i am out of guesses about how GRUB fails to find and execute the
grub.cfg files.
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Thomas
nd do
xorriso -outdev /dev/sr0
xorriso -outdev /dev/sr1
The one with the DVD+RW is supposed to report on stderr:
...
Media current: DVD+RW
...
whereas the empty drive will report:
...
Media current: is not recognizable
...
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Thomas
for CD,
and growisofs for DVD.
https://packages.debian.org/unstable/k3b
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Thomas
quot; fs=16m -eject "$image"
If something goes wrong, there should be error messages which i'd ask you
to copy+paste into a mail to this list or to my mail address if you deem
them unsuitable for public exposure.
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Thomas
stall.amd/vmlinuz vga=788 --- quiet
grub> initrd /install.amd/gtk/initrd.gz
and to start the action:
grub> boot
But there might be more obstacles, given that the menu does not show up.
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Thomas
is trapped in the subsurface under conditions that also
trap natural gas, the greatest natural concentrations of helium on the
planet are found in natural gas"
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Thomas
unning when
the kernel runs software from the initramfs.
But as with /dev/disk/by-id names, there can be always some expectation in
the software or its configuration which is not fulfilled any more after
the disk has hopped to another bus type.
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Thomas
Hi,
Andy Smith wrote:
> Merry Christmas everyone! We've obviously all been bad children.
Yay ! Lumps of coal for everyone !
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Thomas
disposed a lot through its cooling rips.)
In the bottles it has lots of surface per volume to dissipate heat
over night.
We should now discuss our options for building a time machine which can
send an oven thermometer back to the 1960s.
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Thomas
his happened?
Looks like rogue fixing of packaging errors after upload.
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Thomas
also get 'Permission denied' when executed by root.
> Suggestions?
Are these mountpoints? Maybe?
--
Thomas
r backups of mine go to remote computers by rsync.
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Thomas
/VerifyISOImage
https://wiki.debian.org/XorrisoDdTarget
I would be interested to read what you did with GRUB.
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Thomas
ized developer:
https://mentors.debian.net/
(Greetings to my sponsor :))
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Thomas
do not consider a device for booting if it
does not have a GPT header block.
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Thomas
would at least learn whether Secure Boot is
the origin of the problem or just a red herring.
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(for another
reason). loading the nvidia module does taint the kernel, but loads
and work just fine with prime-run on a hybrid systme. i'm not signing
OOT modules, just kernel and efi stuff."
(Whatever "prime-run" might be ...)
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Thomas
ook 445 G7. It fails in the case of the USB2 port of the same
> laptop.
Looks like there is some problem in the USB hardware of the stick,
which strikes on most USB ports.
I would stop plugging it into the USB ports where it does not work well.
If it contains private data, i'd overwrite it with random data via the
port where it works (if it works long enough, that is).
Then i would return it to the seller.
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Thomas
Hi,
can we please have a call to order ?
David wrote:
> In fact, the only thing you have shown here is the effect American
> control over German media has managed to turn Germany into the shithole
> it currently finds itself in.
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ammed by Transcend to tell ID 8564:1000. The controller
crashes after doing some work and reboots partially to its 090c:3265
personality but cannot bring up the memory device functionality together
with the Transcend personality ... or so.
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Thomas
ck's firmware forget its commercial vendor and lets
it fall back to its manufacturing vendor. Further it forgets how to deal
with Linux.
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Thomas
packages.
... and there are even more ways of installing. See:
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/
especially:
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04.en.html
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Thomas
a pressured perl programmer who has to invent a comprehensive
error message and thinks "Let them look up the code on their own".
So the users get shown the script name and the line number.)
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Thomas
the
execution attempt. Something like
print STDERR "systemctl --quiet, @instance_args, $action, @start_units\n";
The problem seems not uncommon:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1010893
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1076530
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Thomas
There was an upgrade so I did it and it is now even worse as far as
getting pages to load. I keep getting error 404, and other messages.
But if I copy the addy and put it in Web it comes up right away. What
the hell is going on. I love firefox but can I install an old one
without a ton of pr
They come up in chrome. I don't trust my information on chrome. I
regularly delete cookies and stuff and I have done that.
On 10/4/24 1:34 AM, riveravaldez wrote:
El jueves, 3 de octubre de 2024, Maureen L
Thomas escribió:
> I have used firefox for ages without a problem til now. I
Yes they appeared all together.
On 10/4/24 12:04 AM, e...@gmx.us wrote:
On 10/3/24 22:42, Maureen L Thomas wrote:
On 10/3/24 9:39 PM, e...@gmx.us wrote:
On 10/3/24 21:15, Maureen L Thomas wrote:
I have used firefox for ages without a problem til now. I am using
the
latest update of debian
~deb12u1
amd64 [installed,automatic]
On 10/3/24 9:39 PM, e...@gmx.us wrote:
On 10/3/24 21:15, Maureen L Thomas wrote:
I have used firefox for ages without a problem til now. I am using the
latest update of debian 12, on a HP computer that is using linux quite
nicely. Any way all of a sudden
I have used firefox for ages without a problem til now. I am using the
latest update of debian 12, on a HP computer that is using linux quite
nicely. Any way all of a sudden there are web pages that no longer open
on firefox. Credit Karma, our local Bob Evans rest., and a couple of
others.
8.2-1/scripts/jigdo-lite )
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st resort.
jigdo-lite will ask for the URL of your favorite Debian mirror server
as package source for first tries.
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Thomas
ich shows the name "rEFInd".
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Thomas
On Fri, Sep 13, 2024, at 5:00 AM, Anssi Saari wrote:
...
> So the answer to
> the question "is running sync needed after dd to block device" is
> no. Someone else posted that too on this list recently, in another
> thread.
On the other hand, it may not be necessary, but it doesn't do any harm.
My old HP is not working right and it is very old. I am looking at
laser printers and have always favored HP. But, in saying that I am
open to any brand. I always get an all in one model since it does come
in handy. Any advice is welcome. Thanks in advance.
Maureen
SB stick.
> Another my question is concerning reading of media and -x argument of
> isosize. Is it really necessary? I can not figure out what corner cases
> are not covered by "head -c BYTES /dev/sdc".
If you put emphasis on avoiding dd, then this would be an alternative.
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Thomas
xorriso-dd-target, just to care for any other remaining buffered data
e.g. from zeroizing the potential GPT backup header at the end of the
USB stick.
Michael Stone wrote:
> It's a waste of time
My experience with or without bs=1M oflag=dsync is like the sniffles:
They last seven days with a doctor and a week without.
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Thomas
Does anybody know what benefit it is/was supposed to bring ?
If it is obsolete, since when ?
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Thomas
om/libburnia/libisoburn/raw/branch/master/xorriso-dd-target/check_debian_iso.asc
--- a/check_debian_iso 2011-12-17 19:33:50.0 +0100
+++ b/check_debian_iso 2024-09-04 14:19:43.987633803 +0200
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
#!/
/www.debian.org/CD/faq/#verify
I wrote:
> > until a decision is made at debian-cd.
> Please, drop a note here in the case of some progress.
I now sent a proposal to debian...@lists.debian.org :
https://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2024/09/msg00011.html
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Thomas
quite surely not the whole story on his hardware.
A reliable verification after apparent success seems advisable.
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Thomas
uite ugly.
(I could get "OK. MATCH." by "if ... then ... else ... fi" which would
be a nice script but an extra ugly command line.)
Ideas for a more elegant way would be appreciated.
- Change "Optical media verification." to
"Optical media and USB key verification."
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Thomas
.
You might get a more realistic impression if you manually checkread and
compare the content of FAT with the data you have written.
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