On 03/15/2011 02:28 PM, carolus wrote: > After creating the .img and dd'ing to a thumb drive, I was surprised to > find that debian-science booted to the command line. When I typed > xmaxima, I got an error message. When I typed R, I got the R prompt, but > when I then tried the command "demo(graphics)", it failed. (I've used > the online CGI builder successfully with both xmaxima and R in > combination with the LXDE package list).
The debian-science list is not a whole desktop system. Have a look at /usr/share/live/build/lists/debian-science. It only includes 'standard'. That will not give you a desktop. You can specify multiple lists with the --packages-lists option, e.g. "--packages-lists debian-science lxde-desktop" should work and probably gives you something like what you were expecting. > I tried dd if=/dev/sda | md5sum to see if the thumb drive matched the > .img. It did not match, but then when I tried the same thing with a > thumb drive that was known to work correctly, that did not match either. > I suppose this trick, which can be used to match a DVD with its .iso, > does not work with flash drives and .img. Consider that the .img is probably smaller than /dev/sda. When you dd it back, how does dd know when to stop? If you dd back the same amount of material you initially dd'd to it, the md5sums should agree. > Is anyone actually using the debian-science configuration? I haven't heard of any problems with it. That could mean everyone who is using it is happy with it, or nobody uses it. It's hard to know for sure. :) Ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
