On 2019-10-07 17:26, lwhona...@gmail.com wrote:
Briefly, I am a new Linux want-to-be. I am totally blind, retired
computer
specialist with most of my work experience in the Windows world. I do
have
a passing knowledge of Unix.
I am attempting my first install of Debian and I must be missing
On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 at 23:51, Brian wrote:
> I run 'lsblk' before
> and after plugging the USB device in. Writing an image to a USB stick is
> not something to rush if you don't want a system disk to suffer.
I like to use 'watch lsblk -f'.
It makes it obvious when the "plugging in" has been detec
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>> Yeah. This is a big problem. We'd need a desktop-user-safe GUI
>> tool which by some AI detects the USB stick which is least worthy
>> of preservation.
Seems to me, what is perhaps needed is more localized support, or
knowing where the peop
On Tue 08 Oct 2019 at 14:48:08 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Tony van der Hoff wrote:
[...]
> > To create a bootable image from a .iso, you need 'dd', i.e.
>
> dd is a great tool, indeed, and i use it for the purpose out of tradition.
> But it does nothing essential for the copied image to be
Hi,
On Tue, 8 Oct 2019 13:38:25 - (UTC)
Curt wrote:
> On 2019-10-08, Dejan Jocic wrote:
> >
> > Anyway, most of Linux newbies will not create usb from Linux machine
> > anyway, so I doubt that any of this will help OP. Personally, can't
> > even remember when I was creating usb image from a
On 2019-10-08, Dejan Jocic wrote:
>
> Anyway, most of Linux newbies will not create usb from Linux machine
> anyway, so I doubt that any of this will help OP. Personally, can't even
> remember when I was creating usb image from anything but Linux, so can't
> be of much help there.
Right, and as t
Hi,
after not finding in the man page a description of cp behavior with
existing target file, i looked up POSIX
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/cp.html
"3. If source_file is of type regular file, [...]
a. [...] if dest_file exists, the following steps shall be
On Tue, Oct 08, 2019 at 01:13:18PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> cp copies a file onto s file system, bit that's not what's wanted here.
> To create a bootable image from a .iso, you need 'dd'
I know I'm repeating what others have said, but this misunderstanding
is so damned pervasive that it
On 08-10-19, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> On 07/10/2019 19:04, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > lwhona...@gmail.com wrote:
> >> I was under the impression, if I copied the dvd image to a usb stick,
> >> I could boot from the stick and start the install.
> >
> > This is true. You have to put it
Hi,
(We are discussing this for the archive, as Larry Honaker probably needs
advise for doing it on MS-Windows.)
Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> cp copies a file onto s file system, bit that's not what's wanted here.
It does indeed. But (at least with our GNU coreutils cp) copying a
data file to a b
On 07/10/2019 19:04, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> lwhona...@gmail.com wrote:
>> I was under the impression, if I copied the dvd image to a usb stick,
>> I could boot from the stick and start the install.
>
> This is true. You have to put it as image onto the raw USB stick device.
>
> https:
Hi,
i wrote:
> > ... or from a fresh attempt to install the ISO onto the USB stick by
> > one of the ISO-to-stick converters (unetbootin, Rufus, ...).
to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> Oh, they do that? Thanks for teaching me something new :-/
I have no comprehensive knowledge of that topic. Just what i
On Tue, Oct 08, 2019 at 09:35:09AM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > The error message quoted by the original poster strongly suggests
> > that he's got that part right: it is the boot loader complaining.
>
> No. It is the wrong flavor of SYSLINUX software and muc
Hi,
to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> The error message quoted by the original poster strongly suggests
> that he's got that part right: it is the boot loader complaining.
No. It is the wrong flavor of SYSLINUX software and much too old.
Even debian-8.1.0-amd64-netinst.iso has "ISOLINUX 6.03 20150107"
an
On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 08:04:16PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
[...]
> > Syslinux 4.03 2010-10-22 EDD © © 1994-2010 H. Peter Aanvin et al
>
> This does not look like the first bootloader message of a contemporary
> Debian ISO image. If booted via legacy BIOS it should say "ISOLINUX"
> rather th
On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 04:40:00PM -, Dan Purgert wrote:
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> wrote:
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> > Greetings All,
> >
> > Briefly, I am a new Linux want-to-be [...]
Welcome!
[...]
> If I'm understanding you properly, yes. You need to take it from an
> "iso ima
Hi,
lwhona...@gmail.com wrote:
> I was under the impression, if I copied the dvd image to a usb stick,
> I could boot from the stick and start the install.
This is true. You have to put it as image onto the raw USB stick device.
https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#write-usb
proposes for GNU/Linux s
On Monday 07 October 2019 12:40:00 Dan Purgert wrote:
> wrote:
> > Greetings All,
> >
> > Briefly, I am a new Linux want-to-be. I am totally blind, retired
> > computer specialist with most of my work experience in the Windows
> > world. I do have a passing knowledge of Unix.
> >
> > I am attem
lwhona...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Briefly, I am a new Linux want-to-be. I am totally blind, retired computer
> specialist with most of my work experience in the Windows world. I do have
> a passing knowledge of Unix.
Good news: you're not the only blind Linux user on this list. If
it helps, the i
Am 07.10.2019 um 18:26 schrieb lwhona...@gmail.com:
Greetings All,
Briefly, I am a new Linux want-to-be. I am totally blind, retired
computer specialist with most of my work experience in the Windows
world. I do have a passing knowledge of Unix.
I am attempting my first install of Debian an
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>
> Greetings All,
>
> Briefly, I am a new Linux want-to-be. I am totally blind, retired
> computer specialist with most of my work experience in the Windows
> world. I do have a passing knowledge of Unix.
>
> I am attempting my first insta
On 10/7/2019 6:26 PM, lwhona...@gmail.com wrote:
> Greetings All,
>
>
>
> Briefly, I am a new Linux want-to-be. I am totally blind, retired computer
> specialist with most of my work experience in the Windows world. I do have
> a passing knowledge of Unix.
>
>
>
> I am attempting my first install
Greetings All,
Briefly, I am a new Linux want-to-be. I am totally blind, retired computer
specialist with most of my work experience in the Windows world. I do have
a passing knowledge of Unix.
I am attempting my first install of Debian and I must be missing something
from the Install Gui
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