On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 10:03:45PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > > sudo dd if=/path/to/debian.iso of=/dev/sd? bs=8M status=progress \ > oflag=direct >
Thanks, after what DJ said, I think that hybrid isos will be fine with 'dd'. But I'm still not sure why using bs=4M transferred less than bs=512K in my failed tests. > You may need to go into the firmware to get it to boot via the USB stick. > Yes - UEFI seems to be an order of magnitude worse than BIOSes. > I then install that system. It sometimes takes a little exploring to get > the disk partitioning the way you want (e.g. expert install). I generally > drop to the command line and create a new GUID Partion Table. The install > procedure should be OK from there. > The machine I hope to get is a laptop, so I'm guessing that 'buntu is probably the easiest way to get things like wifi working (and much as I dislike debian's console tools). But (after taming windows, e.g. fast-boot and hibernation as well as freeing up space) I suspect that getting partitions which meet my expected uses will be one of the fun things. > If you want, I can send you the handout I give students on installing Debian > for an eventual LFS system. > > -- Bruce > For the moment, no thanks. I spent some time on my AmigaOne trying to master apt (and eventually just installing LFS and hacking on the 2.4 kernel). For distro users, apt is flexible (e.g. pin different packages to different versions) but for those of us who prefer to compile it is a painful overhead. Perhaps I should just describe it, like VSAM, as "A flexible and powerful tool," i.e like C++ compared to C, you can not only shoot yourself in your foot, but blow your foot away ;) ĸen -- thread 'main' panicked at 'giraffe', /tmp/rustc-1.32.0-src/src/test/run-fail/while-panic.rs:17:13 -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
