Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: jeshgrca Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Distro tries to set up own partition Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2023 14:07:35 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 58 Message-ID: <87mt3z1gco.fsf@gmail.com> References: <0v00fjxalp.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <1j23fjx089.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <_JidnVh5TPo6UoL5nZ2dnZfqn_SdnZ2d@earthlink.com> <87r0tb1vqn.fsf@gmail.com> <0n96fjxe58.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c3ae7e37f4e7ce5196172f3b841d735b"; logging-data="2968919"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+DWGyXcK9troE3AIKT4/MUc65mcv+apGM=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:fM1C2uHSFmwNykVKvc13nIMxdjc= sha1:zrzEOmajjdwMFWCuVsWERMWbqYs= Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:37655 "Carlos E.R." 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