Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: es.comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Distro tries to set up own partition Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2023 22:11:34 +0200 Lines: 67 Message-ID: References: <0v00fjxalp.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <1j23fjx089.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <_JidnVh5TPo6UoL5nZ2dnZfqn_SdnZ2d@earthlink.com> <87r0tb1vqn.fsf@gmail.com> <0n96fjxe58.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <87mt3z1gco.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net ZDnlGtkS9OUKbtVGorm3JQDqWBqyPcSFMGH/azpV3HMBmMg7Pu X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:jj3ex6N8dBckQ93wcRLD0Fxh9YA= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.8.0 Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: <87mt3z1gco.fsf@gmail.com> Xref: csiph.com es.comp.os.linux.misc:132 On 2023-03-26 21:07, jeshgrca wrote: > "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. Ok. Tumbleweed and Factory are the same thing. An alias. It is just that some of the servers/services/repos keep the old name. Tumbleweed is upstream, but loosely, to SLE/SLED. -- Cheers, Carlos.