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Re: e2fsck problems

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"Bit Twister" <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> wrote in message 
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> On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 00:15:23 -0400, Bill Cunningham wrote:
>
>>     I never could figure out how to make an isolinux dvd/cd bootable 
>> cd/dvd.
>
> If you have a running linux system, download a system rescue iso image
> http://www.sysresccd.org   and run something like

    I usesd your above mentioned disk and it worked. All seems to be 
corrected. And the system reported a corrected error in clokck hardware 
concerning incorrect time. I'm not quite sure what that was about.

>    dd bs=1M of=/dev/sr0 if=fn_here.iso
>
> Be very careful about the /dev/id_here. Not that hard to wipe out the
> wrong drive.  :(
>
> All you have do is figure out what device to use. My cd/dvd device is
> hooked to /dev/sr0.
>
> If I want to burn an iso to a thumb drive it would be
>    dd bs=1M if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdg count=1
>    dd bs=1M of=/dev/sdg if=fn_here.iso
>
> First one wipes out the thumb drive's partition table and the second
> writes the iso.
>
> You really need to wait for the usb drive's blinking led to finish.
>
> Again, you better know what device you are writing to (of=/dev/XXX).

    I tried your dd instructions they didn't work at all. I eliminated my 
partition which I didn't want to do. And I used my XP burning software. Well 
what matters now I guess is that all's well.

Thanks for the help!

Bill

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e2fsck problems "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-10-21 22:48 -0400
  Re: e2fsck problems Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2014-10-21 20:20 -0700
    Re: e2fsck problems "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-10-22 00:15 -0400
      Re: e2fsck problems Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2014-10-22 04:44 +0000
        Re: e2fsck problems lakshmi <lakshmipathi.g@gmail.com> - 2014-10-21 23:26 -0700
          Re: e2fsck problems "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-10-22 15:04 -0400
            Re: e2fsck problems "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-10-22 17:08 -0400
              Re: e2fsck problems Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2014-10-22 14:41 -0700
            Re: e2fsck problems Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2014-10-22 15:30 -0700
              Re: e2fsck problems "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-10-23 13:58 -0400
        Re: e2fsck problems "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-10-22 18:40 -0400
      Re: e2fsck problems Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2014-10-22 08:05 -0700
        Re: e2fsck problems Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2014-10-22 08:11 -0700

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