Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98%

From	Luis Speciale <lspeciale@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98%
Date	2017-09-04 19:10 +0200
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Le 04/09/2017 à 18:27, Thomas Schmitt a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:
>> Are you saying that it looks like he copied straight to
>> the device instead of to a mount point?
> 
> Yes, i believe it is so.
> I cannot be totally sure, because i have no MacOS at hand.
> But /dev/disk1 is a whole disk device, according to web and other
> confirmations. No Unix puts a file into the filesystem of a disk if
> you copy it to the disk device file.
> On GNU/Linux, "cp" does the same as "dd" in such a case. It copies the
> ISO image bytes plainly onto the disk device, overwriting the partition
> table and possibly establishing an own partition table.

That's what I think too. That's maybe also the reason why I had the 
message "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer." at 
the end of the cp command. My iMac did not understood the animal


> This plain copying of the ISO to the disk device is the recommended way
> to use a Debian i386 or amd64 installation ISO on a USB stick.
> Unpacking and installing to the hard disk happens by a GNU/Linux system
> which gets booted out of the ISO. Either by bootloader ISOLINUX on PC BIOS
> firmware, or by bootloader GRUB2 on EFI firmware. Both are ready in the ISO.
> 
> So no need to unpack the ISO before booting the USB stick.
> There are old instructions around to do so. They might still have a benefit
> if you want to boot more than one system from the USB stick.
> 
> 
>> I regularly mount partitions to do debootstrap installs so I do
>> understand that method.
> 
> That's an alternative way to install Debian without a bootable ISO but
> rather by help of an already running operating system (must it be a
> GNU/Linux ?) and access to a Debian repository.
> One could possibly use a Live-CD ISO as such a running operating system.
> 
> 
> Have a nice day :)
> 
> Thomas
> 
>

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Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% Luis Speciale <lspeciale@gmail.com> - 2017-09-02 18:30 +0200
  Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-09-02 19:10 +0200
    Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% Luis Speciale <lspeciale@gmail.com> - 2017-09-02 19:30 +0200
      Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-09-02 20:00 +0200
        Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% Luis Speciale <lspeciale@gmail.com> - 2017-09-02 21:10 +0200
        Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% Luis Speciale <lspeciale@gmail.com> - 2017-09-03 00:10 +0200
          Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-09-03 01:20 +0200
            Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% Luis Speciale <lspeciale@gmail.com> - 2017-09-03 02:30 +0200
              Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-09-03 13:40 +0200
                Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% Luis Speciale <lspeciale@gmail.com> - 2017-09-03 14:00 +0200
                Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-09-03 14:20 +0200
            Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-09-03 13:50 +0200
              Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-09-03 14:30 +0200
          Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% Dominique Dumont <dod38fr@gmail.com> - 2017-09-03 10:30 +0200
            Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% Luis Speciale <lspeciale@gmail.com> - 2017-09-03 11:10 +0200
              Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% Dominique Dumont <dod38fr@gmail.com> - 2017-09-03 11:40 +0200
              Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2017-09-03 23:50 +0200
                Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% (SOLVED) Luis Speciale <lspeciale@gmail.com> - 2017-09-04 13:50 +0200
            Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-09-03 12:00 +0200
              Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% Luis Speciale <lspeciale@gmail.com> - 2017-09-03 12:30 +0200
                Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-09-03 13:20 +0200
                Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% Luis Speciale <lspeciale@gmail.com> - 2017-09-03 13:30 +0200
          Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-09-03 12:50 +0200
            Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% Luis Speciale <lspeciale@gmail.com> - 2017-09-03 13:00 +0200
              Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-09-03 13:30 +0200
                Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% Luis Speciale <lspeciale@gmail.com> - 2017-09-03 13:40 +0200
                Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-09-03 14:10 +0200
                Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% Luis Speciale <lspeciale@gmail.com> - 2017-09-03 14:30 +0200
                Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-09-03 14:50 +0200
                Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% Luis Speciale <lspeciale@gmail.com> - 2017-09-03 15:10 +0200
                Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-09-03 15:20 +0200
                Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% Luis Speciale <lspeciale@gmail.com> - 2017-09-03 15:30 +0200
                Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-09-03 15:40 +0200
                Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% Luis Speciale <lspeciale@gmail.com> - 2017-09-03 18:50 +0200
                Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-09-03 19:50 +0200
                Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% Luis Speciale <lspeciale@gmail.com> - 2017-09-04 13:30 +0200
                Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-09-04 14:10 +0200
                Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2017-09-04 18:00 +0200
                Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-09-04 18:20 +0200
                Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-09-04 18:30 +0200
                Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% Luis Speciale <lspeciale@gmail.com> - 2017-09-04 19:10 +0200
                Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% Luis Speciale <lspeciale@gmail.com> - 2017-09-04 19:00 +0200
                Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-09-04 20:00 +0200
                Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% Luis Speciale <lspeciale@gmail.com> - 2017-09-04 20:20 +0200
                Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-09-04 20:50 +0200
                Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-09-04 21:10 +0200
                Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-09-04 21:30 +0200
                Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-09-04 22:00 +0200
                Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-09-04 22:30 +0200
                Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% Luis Speciale <lspeciale@gmail.com> - 2017-09-04 23:10 +0200
                Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-09-03 15:40 +0200
                Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-09-03 13:40 +0200
      Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2017-09-02 21:00 +0200
        Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% Luis Speciale <lspeciale@gmail.com> - 2017-09-03 10:30 +0200

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