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| From | jeshgrca <jeshgrca@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.misc |
| Subject | Re: Distro tries to set up own partition |
| Date | 2023-03-26 14:07 -0500 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <87mt3z1gco.fsf@gmail.com> (permalink) |
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"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> writes: > 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. I apologize for being unclear; I use Tumbleweed, not Leap. Tumbleweed, from my understanding, is only downstream to Factory. -- "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." - Attributed to Albert Einstein
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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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