You can read the TXT files with any text editor. Ubuntu usually has Gedit in the menu which will work fine. On the commandline you can use 'less'.
The problem here is different. You got a message that /dev/sdc does not exist or is not readable. Also, the DVD you downloaded should take a while to write. dd also doesnt do any checks, it just writes what is in the file so an incomplete file will not throw any errors. It sounds like it may have completed too quickly. Make sure that /dev/sdc exists, reinsert the USB stick to get it to show up. Also, run the following command and send post the output. md5sum <path to slackware dvd> Several of the problems you've had with this dvd suggest an incomplete download. If the download stopped partway, that would explain why the syslinux file was "missing" earlier. md5sums are used to verify download integrity by a lot of FOSS projects. On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 4:28 PM Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/25/18 4:07 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: > > Slow it down. There are instructions on the ISO to write it to a USB > stick. > > If you mount the iso you can read about your options in the > > usb-and-pxe-installers folder on the installation media. > > > > There are a few different options. > > - raw DD > > - using the iso2usb script on the iso. > > > > It sounds like your write using dd was incomplete. This can happen, so > try > > it again like so: > > $ sudo dd if=~/Desktop/slackware64-14.2-install-dvd.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=1M > > When I ran that it didn't take very long, but it completed, and I was > able to eject it and try and boot from it. I just get a blank screen > after telling it to boot from the USB stick. Do I need to wipe the USB > stick in some way before trying that again? > > > If it fails, mount the iso and run the script to create the USB installer > > as follows: > > $ mount ~/Desktop/slackware64-14.2-install-dvd.iso /mnt > > $ sudo sh /mnt/usb-and-pxe-installers/usbimg2disk.sh -f -s /mnt/ -o > /dev/sdc > > dick@ENU-1:~/Desktop/Slack-work$ sudo sh > /mnt/usb-and-pxe-installers/usbimg2disk.sh -f -s /mnt/ -o /dev/sdc > *** Not a block device: '/dev/sdc' ! > dick@ENU-1:~/Desktop/Slack-work$ > > While I can drill down into the iso and find usb-and-pxe-installers, I > can't read the .TXT files in there. What's the trick to doing that? > > > If both of these fail to produce something that boots properly, then your > > download is probably bad. A bad download can be verified easily, you > don't > > need to go through someone else's third party download. > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
