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Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM

From Kent West <westk@acu.edu>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM
Date 2018-05-11 22:20 +0200
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On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 2:59 PM, Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org>
wrote:

> Le 11/05/2018 à 20:33, Kent West a écrit :
>
>>
>> I learned that EFI boot drives need to have a GPT partition table. On a
>>
>
> This is not correct. The UEFI specification supports boot from a drive
> with an MSDOS partition table. Otherwise why would there be an "EFI system
> partition" type identifier (0xef) for MSDOS partition tables ? The Debian
> installer hybrid image has an MSDOS partition table. (It also has Apple and
> GPT partition tables, but they are bogus)


That's good to know. I guess my source material (
https://www.happyassassin.net/2014/01/25/uefi-boot-how-does-that-actually-work-then/)
is wrong. Or I misunderstood it.



>
> lark, I ran "gparted --list", and discovered that the flash drive had a
>> "mac" partition table.
>>
>> Wha-a-ah-h-h??
>>
>
> It is part of the image.
>
> Okay. So I ran gparted, selected the drive, and created a new "GPT"
>> partition table, then repeated all my former steps, and bang! Success!
>>
>
> Copying the image again overwrote the GPT partition table and anything
> else you may have written to the stick. So it does not explain the success.
> You may have done something wrong the first time.
>


Possibly. With my first attempt, the "cp" happened very quickly. I didn't
do a "sync", but I did use Cinnamon's system-tray thingie to eject the USB
drive before unplugging it. With the second attempt, the "cp" took minutes
(long enough I was beginning to think it had hung).

At any rate, I have a working system (except for wirelessly connecting to a
secured network (unsecured works fine)), so I'm happy.

Thanks!




-- 
Kent West                    <")))><
Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com

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USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2018-05-11 18:20 +0200
  Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM Robert Menes <viewtiful.icchan@gmail.com> - 2018-05-11 18:40 +0200
    Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> - 2018-05-12 01:10 +0200
      Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2018-05-12 03:40 +0200
      Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-05-12 19:40 +0200
  Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-05-11 18:40 +0200
  Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-05-11 19:10 +0200
    Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2018-05-11 20:40 +0200
  Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2018-05-11 19:50 +0200
    Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2018-05-11 20:40 +0200
      Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2018-05-11 21:30 +0200
      Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-05-11 22:00 +0200
        Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2018-05-11 22:20 +0200
          Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-05-11 22:40 +0200
            Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2018-05-11 23:00 +0200
              Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-05-12 00:00 +0200
              Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-05-12 12:30 +0200
            Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-05-12 19:50 +0200
              Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-05-12 21:40 +0200
                Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-05-13 10:20 +0200
                Re: Block sizes in ISOs. was: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-05-13 11:30 +0200
          UEFI/"BIOS" booting, was Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about  CD-ROM David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-05-13 17:20 +0200
            Re: UEFI/"BIOS" booting, was Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about  CD-ROM Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-05-13 19:10 +0200
              Re: UEFI/"BIOS" booting, was Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about  CD-ROM David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-05-14 02:10 +0200
                Re: UEFI/"BIOS" booting, was Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about  CD-ROM Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-05-14 23:40 +0200
                Re: UEFI/"BIOS" booting, was Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about  CD-ROM David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-05-15 04:00 +0200
              Re: UEFI/"BIOS" booting, was Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about  CD-ROM songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2018-05-14 12:40 +0200
                Re: UEFI/"BIOS" booting, was Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about  CD-ROM Chris Ramsden <chris.ramsden@gmail.com> - 2018-05-14 14:40 +0200
                Re: UEFI/"BIOS" booting, was Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about  CD-ROM David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-05-14 16:00 +0200
                Re: UEFI/"BIOS" booting, was Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about  CD-ROM Chris Ramsden <chris.ramsden@gmail.com> - 2018-05-14 17:00 +0200
                Re: UEFI/"BIOS" booting, was Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about  CD-ROM songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2018-05-15 02:50 +0200
            Re: UEFI/"BIOS" booting, was Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2018-05-14 15:20 +0200
              Re: UEFI/"BIOS" booting, was Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about  CD-ROM David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-05-14 16:40 +0200
                Re: UEFI/"BIOS" booting "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-05-14 18:00 +0200
                Re: UEFI/"BIOS" booting Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-05-14 23:50 +0200
                Re: UEFI/"BIOS" booting "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-05-15 09:00 +0200
                Re: UEFI/"BIOS" booting Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-05-16 00:20 +0200
                Re: UEFI/"BIOS" booting Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-05-16 23:50 +0200
                Re: UEFI/"BIOS" booting "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-05-17 13:00 +0200
                Re: UEFI/"BIOS" booting, was Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2018-05-14 18:00 +0200
                Re: UEFI/"BIOS" booting, was Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about  CD-ROM David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-05-15 03:30 +0200
                Re: UEFI/"BIOS" booting, was Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about  CD-ROM Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-05-16 00:40 +0200
                Re: UEFI/"BIOS" booting, was Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about  CD-ROM David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-05-18 20:40 +0200
                Re: UEFI/"BIOS" booting Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-05-14 23:50 +0200
                Re: UEFI/"BIOS" booting David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-05-15 03:40 +0200
                Re: UEFI/"BIOS" booting Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-05-16 00:40 +0200
                Re: UEFI/"BIOS" booting mess-mate <eric.m.c.declerck@gmail.com> - 2018-05-16 15:20 +0200
                Re: UEFI/"BIOS" booting David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-05-18 20:50 +0200
  Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM Mike Kupfer <mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu> - 2018-05-13 04:20 +0200
    Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-05-13 10:30 +0200
      Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-05-13 12:10 +0200
        Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-05-13 14:10 +0200
          Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-05-13 14:50 +0200
        Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM Mike Kupfer <mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu> - 2018-05-13 19:00 +0200
          Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-05-13 20:20 +0200
            Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM Mike Kupfer <mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu> - 2018-05-14 00:40 +0200
              Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-05-14 13:30 +0200
                Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM Mike Kupfer <mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu> - 2018-05-14 16:50 +0200
                Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-05-14 18:20 +0200
                Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-05-14 20:10 +0200
                Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-05-14 22:10 +0200
                Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM Mike Kupfer <mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu> - 2018-05-14 23:00 +0200
                Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM Mike Kupfer <mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu> - 2018-05-15 01:20 +0200
                Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-05-15 09:10 +0200
                Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM Mike Kupfer <mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu> - 2018-05-17 23:40 +0200
                Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-05-18 08:50 +0200
                Re: USB Install Fails, Complains about CD-ROM Mike Kupfer <mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu> - 2018-05-15 01:10 +0200

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