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Re: Distro tries to set up own partition

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On 2023-03-26 15:35, jeshgrca wrote:
> "27E.G756" <27E.G756@noq24u.net> writes:
> 
>> On 3/25/23 7:30 AM, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>>> On 2023-03-24 21:27, vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:
>>>> I welcome and appreciate these comments, but am not sure I fully
>>>> understand
>>>> them yet:
>>>>
>>>> *+->
>>>> *+->  ?? 'dd' could do the copy too - but you have to be REALLY
>>>> *+->  ?? sure about the exact dest point on the hdd.
>>>>
>>>> *+-The procedure would be:
>>>>
>>>> *+- - Create a partition (empty) in that 10g empty space
>>>>
>>>> *+- - dd the iso into the partition
>>>>
>>>> *+-dd if=/dev/sr0 of=/dev/sdXy bs=1MiB
>>>>
>>>> *+-Not sure it can be booted.
>>> If you don't understand this then I'm not going to explain. Too
>>> dangerous, sorry.
>>> Go the virtualbox route instead.
>>
>>    Absolutely agreed. Our 'tricks' can TRASH his
>>    whole system if not done *perfectly* ... and
>>    he doesn't seem to be extremely experienced
>>    with -IX systems.
>>
>>    VBox WILL do what he desires - pretty easily and
>>    cleanly and at no risk. His old disrto will even
>>    gain some perks by "filtering through" the VBox
>>    system.
>>
>>    Hmmm ... you'd THINK a live distro with all those
>>    math/stat extras would have been perpetuated by
>>    somebody. "Scientific Linux" might have been it,
>>    but that seems to have fallen a bit by the
>>    proverbial wayside (as with all the RPM universe
>>    after the IBM/RHEL thing).
>>
> 
> openSUSE is an RPM-based distro whose  downstream (SLE) is officially
> supported by IBM on their systems, and it works perfectly well for me...

It is actually the other way round: SLE is upstream of openSUSE Leap. 
openSUSE Leap and SLE are binary compatible. With extra packages, like 
Plasma, coming directly from the community instead.


-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

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Distro tries to set up own partition vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com - 2023-03-23 20:09 +0000
  Re: Distro tries to set up own partition vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com - 2023-03-23 20:15 +0000
  Re: Distro tries to set up own partition Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2023-03-23 13:55 -0700
    Re: Distro tries to set up own partition "24E.X756" <24E.X756@noq21u.net> - 2023-03-23 21:46 -0400
      Re: Distro tries to set up own partition "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-03-24 08:44 +0100
        Re: Distro tries to set up own partition vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com - 2023-03-24 20:27 +0000
          Re: Distro tries to set up own partition "27E.G756" <27E.G756@noq24u.net> - 2023-03-24 23:48 -0400
          Re: Distro tries to set up own partition "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-03-25 12:30 +0100
            Re: Distro tries to set up own partition "27E.G756" <27E.G756@noq24u.net> - 2023-03-26 00:52 -0400
              Re: Distro tries to set up own partition jeshgrca <jeshgrca@gmail.com> - 2023-03-26 08:35 -0500
                Re: Distro tries to set up own partition "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-03-26 18:50 +0200
                Re: Distro tries to set up own partition jeshgrca <jeshgrca@gmail.com> - 2023-03-26 14:07 -0500
              Re: Distro tries to set up own partition Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2023-03-26 08:01 -0700
              Re: Distro tries to set up own partition Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2023-03-26 16:08 +0000
                Re: Distro tries to set up own partition "27E.G756" <27E.G756@noq24u.net> - 2023-03-26 20:14 -0400
                Re: Distro tries to set up own partition Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2023-03-27 01:24 +0000
                Re: Distro tries to set up own partition "27E.G756" <27E.G756@noq24u.net> - 2023-03-26 23:34 -0400
                Re: Distro tries to set up own partition Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2023-03-27 06:59 +0000
                Re: Distro tries to set up own partition "27E.G756" <27E.G756@noq24u.net> - 2023-03-28 00:03 -0400
                Re: Distro tries to set up own partition Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2023-03-28 16:52 +0000
                Re: Distro tries to set up own partition "27E.G756" <27E.G756@noq24u.net> - 2023-03-28 22:31 -0400
                Re: Distro tries to set up own partition The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-03-27 13:27 +0100
                Re: Distro tries to set up own partition "27E.G756" <27E.G756@noq24u.net> - 2023-03-28 00:08 -0400
                Re: Distro tries to set up own partition Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2023-03-28 17:03 +0000
                Re: Distro tries to set up own partition "27E.G756" <27E.G756@noq24u.net> - 2023-03-28 22:46 -0400
      Re: Distro tries to set up own partition Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2023-03-24 11:21 -0400
        Re: Distro tries to set up own partition "27E.G756" <27E.G756@noq24u.net> - 2023-03-25 00:20 -0400
          Re: Distro tries to set up own partition Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2023-03-25 11:47 -0400
            Re: Distro tries to set up own partition "27E.G756" <27E.G756@noq24u.net> - 2023-03-26 00:46 -0400
  Re: Distro tries to set up own partition "Nuno Silva" <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2023-03-24 07:38 +0000
    Re: Distro tries to set up own partition vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com - 2023-03-24 20:25 +0000
      Re: Distro tries to set up own partition "27E.G756" <27E.G756@noq24u.net> - 2023-03-25 00:48 -0400
  Re: Distro tries to set up own partition vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com - 2023-03-27 18:41 +0000
    Re: Distro tries to set up own partition Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2023-03-27 11:53 -0700

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