On Monday 30 April 2018 12:03:31 David Wright wrote: > On Mon 30 Apr 2018 at 10:44:58 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 30 April 2018 09:24:12 Richard Owlett wrote: > > > Sometimes automount and cousins are convenient. Other times > > > %@%$^$!*() ;/ > > > > Let me clarify that, to a right Pain In The Ass when trying to write > > an armhf or arm64 systen to its boot u-sd card. They grab the card > > the instant its plugged in and then dd has a hell of a time trying > > to write to a mounted device. > > Yes, I seem to remember pointing out that the cause might be Package: > usbmount, and being told that it wasn't there and I had an attitude > problem.
My apologies David. It turned out to be hiding in plain sight and that is where I killed it. > In the end I think you blamed the "few trillion gallons of > water [flowing] down the West Fork River" for a recollection problem. > That also is a definite possibility. My shorter term memory is suffering from oldtimers. Goes with both the 83 years, and I think from being a pulmonary embolism surviver 3 years back up the log. > > > > On Monday, April 30, 2018 08:23:43 AM [email protected] wrote: > > > >> On Monday, April 30, 2018 07:46:01 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > > > >>> Debian documentation NOT written for hoi polloi. > > > > And it needs to be. > > I can't understand why Debian would involve itself in writing > tutorials for commands like mount, ls, and so on, or glossaries > of terms like strictatime and device file. > > All this is standard linux/unix information, well catered for by > libraries of books from several well-known publishers, O'Reilly > being one of the best known. I spent 1997/8 immersing myself in such > texts, at a time when these books had to be bought. (Public libraries > only had Idiots' guides to W95, etc.) Now there are a wealth of > free PDFs at every level of expertise on the web, there for the > downloading. > Cheers, > David. Thanks David. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
