On Sun 08 Sep 2019 at 13:26:16 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 08 September 2019 12:49:14 Curt wrote: > > On 2019-09-08, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > >> > What does this do that the iso doesn't, and note it takes a > > >> > windows machine to follow those instructions. > > >> > > >> Eh? How do you work that out? > > > > > > I won't, theres always another way to skin that cat. ;-) Time, if I > > > have it, will sort that out. > > > > He means how did you derive that erroneous notion from the > > 'README.concatenateable_images,' which says: > > > > To create a complete image from the two parts on Linux systems, you > > can use zcat as follows: > > > > zcat firmware.<board_name>.img.gz partition.img.gz > > > complete_image.img > > zcat is not a cmnd I use, so I didn't recognize it.
Perhaps you've been brainwashed by the "pointless use of cat" crowd :) > Besides, it more of > the zero info names that one isn't going to remember a week down the log > when one trips over partition.img.gz and wonders why it was that I > downloaded it. Easily fixed by placing them in directories with meaningful names, as in: debian/iso/buster/10.0.0/netboot/d-i/amd64/initrd.gz (2019-07-01 30581523) debian/iso/buster/10.0.0/netboot/d-i/amd64/linux (2019-07-01 5221616) debian/iso/buster/10.0.0/netboot/d-i/amd64/SHA256SUMS (2019-07-01 75295) debian/iso/buster/10.0.0/netboot/d-i/i386/initrd.gz (2019-07-01 26665346) debian/iso/buster/10.0.0/netboot/d-i/i386/linux (2019-07-01 4140688) debian/iso/buster/10.0.0/netboot/d-i/i386/SHA256SUMS (2019-07-01 73988) debian/iso/buster/10.0.0/netinst/amd64/firmware-10.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso (2019-07-06 393216000) debian/iso/buster/10.0.0/netinst/amd64/SHA512SUMS (2019-07-06 332) debian/iso/buster/10.0.0/netinst/amd64/SHA512SUMS.sign (2019-07-06 833) debian/iso/buster/10.0.0/netinst/i386/firmware-10.0.0-i386-netinst.iso (2019-07-06 488636416) debian/iso/buster/10.0.0/netinst/i386/SHA512SUMS (2019-07-06 330) debian/iso/buster/10.0.0/netinst/i386/SHA512SUMS.sign (2019-07-06 833) debian/iso/jessie/8.7.1/netinst/i386/firmware-8.7.1-i386-netinst.iso (2017-01-16 351272960) debian/iso/jessie/8.7.1/netinst/i386/SHA512SUMS (2017-01-17 162) debian/iso/jessie/8.7.1/netinst/i386/SHA512SUMS.sign (2017-01-17 819) debian/iso/stretch/9.1.0/live/amd64/debian-live-9.1.0-amd64-lxde+nonfree.iso (2017-07-22 2346844160) debian/iso/stretch/9.1.0/live/amd64/SHA512SUMS (2017-07-23 4180) debian/iso/stretch/9.1.0/live/amd64/SHA512SUMS.sign (2017-07-23 833) debian/iso/stretch/9.1.0/live/i386/debian-live-9.1.0-i386-lxde+nonfree.iso (2017-07-23 2394816512) debian/iso/stretch/9.1.0/live/i386/SHA512SUMS (2017-07-23 4156) debian/iso/stretch/9.1.0/live/i386/SHA512SUMS.sign (2017-07-23 833) debian/iso/stretch/9.5.0/netinst/amd64/firmware-9.5.0-amd64-netinst.iso (2018-07-14 341835776) debian/iso/stretch/9.5.0/netinst/amd64/SHA512SUMS (2018-07-14 163) debian/iso/stretch/9.5.0/netinst/amd64/SHA512SUMS.sign (2018-07-14 833) debian/iso/stretch/9.5.0/netinst/i386/firmware-9.5.0-i386-netinst.iso (2018-07-14 432013312) debian/iso/stretch/9.5.0/netinst/i386/SHA512SUMS (2018-07-14 162) debian/iso/stretch/9.5.0/netinst/i386/SHA512SUMS.sign (2018-07-14 833) Cheers, David.
