Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

2014-03-03 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Hmm, I thought the 'count=' stuff was only needed for CD-ROMs. Again, I prefer to keep things simple and would rather use just: md5sum /dev/sdb This will not give you the MD5 of the image that was copied to the beginning of the storage device, unless the image size is exactly the

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

2014-03-02 Thread David
On 2 March 2014 18:54, David bouncingc...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 March 2014 18:32, Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote: For some reason your posts have broken threads and I can't find the first one. :/ https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/02/thrd3.html#01175 or

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

2014-03-02 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 02/03/14 18:59, David wrote: On 2 March 2014 18:54, David bouncingc...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 March 2014 18:32, Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote: For some reason your posts have broken threads and I can't find the first one. :/

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

2014-03-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i am the developer of xorriso, which created the image in question under control of the debian-cd package. Debian i386 images are ISO 9660 filesystems with El Torito Boot Record to boot from CD/DVD/BD, and with Master Boot Record, which enables them to boot from hard disk and USB stick. If

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

2014-03-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 01 mar 14, 14:38:14, Richard Owlett wrote: root@minimal-squeeze:/home/richard# isoinfo -d -i /dev/cdrom ... Volume size is: 1939608 root@minimal-squeeze:/home/richard# dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 count=1939608 of=/home/richard/myiso1.iso conv=notrunc 1939608+0 records in 1939608+0

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

2014-03-02 Thread Richard Owlett
Scott Ferguson wrote: On 02/03/14 11:39, Richard Owlett wrote: Brian wrote: On Sat 01 Mar 2014 at 14:38:14 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: Created myiso1.iso from Wheezy(7.1) DVD 1 of 10 using dd and then used dd to copy it to a USB flash drive. I was able to boot from the flash drive and do

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

2014-03-02 Thread David
On 2 March 2014 20:41, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Sb, 01 mar 14, 14:38:14, Richard Owlett wrote: root@minimal-squeeze:/home/richard# isoinfo -d -i /dev/cdrom ... Volume size is: 1939608 root@minimal-squeeze:/home/richard# dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 count=1939608

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

2014-03-02 Thread Richard Owlett
Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, i am the developer of xorriso, which created the image in question under control of the debian-cd package. Debian i386 images are ISO 9660 filesystems with El Torito Boot Record to boot from CD/DVD/BD, and with Master Boot Record, which enables them to boot from hard

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

2014-03-02 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 02/03/14 22:06, Richard Owlett wrote: Scott Ferguson wrote: On 02/03/14 11:39, Richard Owlett wrote: Brian wrote: On Sat 01 Mar 2014 at 14:38:14 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: Created myiso1.iso from Wheezy(7.1) DVD 1 of 10 using dd and then used dd to copy it to a USB flash drive. I was

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

2014-03-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, On Sb, 01 mar 14, 14:38:14, Richard Owlett wrote: root@minimal-squeeze:/home/richard# dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 count=1939608 of=/home/richard/myiso1.iso conv=notrunc [...] root@minimal-squeeze:/home/richard# dd if=/home/richard/myiso1.iso bs=2048 count=1939608 of=/dev/sdb

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

2014-03-02 Thread Richard Owlett
Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 01 mar 14, 14:38:14, Richard Owlett wrote: root@minimal-squeeze:/home/richard# isoinfo -d -i /dev/cdrom ... Volume size is: 1939608 root@minimal-squeeze:/home/richard# dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 count=1939608 of=/home/richard/myiso1.iso conv=notrunc 1939608+0

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

2014-03-02 Thread Brian
On Sat 01 Mar 2014 at 18:39:31 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: Brian wrote: d-i knows how to mount the ISO (otherwise all your installs would have failed). Now - what does it know that you don't? :) You be only one claiming omniscience ;/ The time to get worried is when mount -t

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

2014-03-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: My starting point is a purchased multi DVD set of Wheezy(7.1.0). My goal is a single bootable flash drive with an unstated presumption that it would be formatted FAT16 or FAT32. isoinfo reports the flash drive is ISO 9660. Yes, it is. You copied it onto the stick

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

2014-03-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, I would like to have more information about this read ahead bug, but I cannot find a full bug report or similar technical discussion of it. dd count= will not save you from it. It is in the block device driver of Linux for CD reading. CD media can bear sectors which do not represent data

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

2014-03-02 Thread David
On 2 March 2014 22:20, David bouncingc...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 March 2014 23:54, Thomas Schmitt scdbac...@gmx.net wrote: I would like to have more information about this read ahead bug, but I cannot find a full bug report or similar technical discussion of it. [snip interesting information]

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

2014-03-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 02 mar 14, 12:30:54, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, On Sb, 01 mar 14, 14:38:14, Richard Owlett wrote: root@minimal-squeeze:/home/richard# dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 count=1939608 of=/home/richard/myiso1.iso conv=notrunc [...] root@minimal-squeeze:/home/richard# dd

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

2014-03-01 Thread David
On 2 March 2014 07:38, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: Created myiso1.iso from Wheezy(7.1) DVD 1 of 10 using dd and then used dd to copy it to a USB flash drive. I was able to boot from the flash drive and do several installs (different DE's). *HOWEVER* I can *NOT* mount the

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

2014-03-01 Thread Brian
On Sat 01 Mar 2014 at 14:38:14 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: Created myiso1.iso from Wheezy(7.1) DVD 1 of 10 using dd and then used dd to copy it to a USB flash drive. I was able to boot from the flash drive and do several installs (different DE's). *HOWEVER* I can *NOT* mount the flash

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

2014-03-01 Thread Richard Owlett
Brian wrote: On Sat 01 Mar 2014 at 14:38:14 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: Created myiso1.iso from Wheezy(7.1) DVD 1 of 10 using dd and then used dd to copy it to a USB flash drive. I was able to boot from the flash drive and do several installs (different DE's). *HOWEVER* I can *NOT* mount

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

2014-03-01 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 02/03/14 11:39, Richard Owlett wrote: Brian wrote: On Sat 01 Mar 2014 at 14:38:14 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: Created myiso1.iso from Wheezy(7.1) DVD 1 of 10 using dd and then used dd to copy it to a USB flash drive. I was able to boot from the flash drive and do several installs

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

2014-03-01 Thread David
On 2 March 2014 18:32, Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote: For some reason your posts have broken threads and I can't find the first one. :/ https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/02/thrd3.html#01175 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org