On 11/25/18 4:52 PM, Ben Koenig wrote:
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'.
Well, of course it works, now. Earlier I got an error message that the
file README_USB.TXT was a binary file.
I'll go read that file next.
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.
Right now when I plug in the USB stick two icons show up on the desktop.
If I click on one to eject it, both go away. Plugging it back in, both
show up.
/dev/sdc2 on /media/dick/SlackDVD type vfat
(rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,showexec,utf8,flush,errors=remount-ro,uhelper=udisks2)
/dev/sdc1 on /media/dick/SlackDVD1 type iso9660
(ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime,nojoliet,check=s,map=n,blocksize=2048,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmode=500,fmode=400,uhelper=udisks2)
Earlier efforts involved using unetbootin. I don't know if running dd
over that might have done something weird. That's why I wonder if I
should be doing something to wipe the USB stick before proceeding.
Also, run the following command and send post the output.
md5sum <path to slackware dvd>
dick@ENU-1:~$ md5sum Desktop/slackware64-14.2-install-dvd.iso
522db1d2845aaab22078530c67f858c1 Desktop/slackware64-14.2-install-dvd.iso
dick@ENU-1:~$
This morning I downloaded via the torrent, and this afternoon I
downloaded from a separate mirror. The torrent download provided a
directory with an md5sum file. Both downloads match the value in that file.
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.
--
Regards,
Dick Steffens
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