Re: have a mate-desktop CD

2018-03-28 Thread shirish शिरीष
Reply in-line :- On 17/03/2018, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > shirish wrote: >> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/buster_di_alpha2/amd64/iso-cd/debian-buster-DI-alpha2-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso > Dear Thomas, Sorry for not getting back earlier but as you had changed the thread headline, I was unab

Re: have a mate-desktop CD

2018-03-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, shirish wrote: > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/buster_di_alpha2/amd64/iso-cd/debian-buster-DI-alpha2-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso Just to be sure that no regression confuses us here, i downloaded that ISO and let xorriso analyse its boot equipment: xorriso -indev debian-buster-DI-alpha2-amd64-

Re: have a mate-desktop CD was Re: magnet links and pushing them to meta-search engines.

2018-03-16 Thread shirish शिरीष
Reply at bottom :- On 17/03/2018, Rick Thomas wrote: > > Is there a relatively simple way a normal Debian user (without special > developer skills or access to special developer resources) can create a > Debian Live CD/DVD/BD/USB-stick with their choice of packages? The goal > here would be fo

Re: have a mate-desktop CD was Re: magnet links and pushing them to meta-search engines.

2018-03-16 Thread shirish शिरीष
On 17/03/2018, Steve McIntyre wrote: > [ Dropped the mate list - this isn't relevant there... ] > Reply in-line :- > > Then you were definitely using ISO mode in Rufus. The main problem > with that (and with unetbootin and other tools that work like this) is > that it's very easy to replace bo

Re: have a mate-desktop CD was Re: magnet links and pushing them to meta-search engines.

2018-03-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 01:42:44PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > >On Mar 16, 2018, at 1:03 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >>> Lastly, would it be possible to have a mate-desktop CD apart from the >>> xfce one. While choice of desktop environment is certainly a personal >>> choice, I feel it's a good l

Re: have a mate-desktop CD

2018-03-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 10:24:26PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > >Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Then you were definitely using ISO mode in Rufus. > >At least it is not the "exact clone of the image onto the USB" which >Pete Batard promises for DD mode of his Rufus. Nod. >> we have recommendations for

Re: have a mate-desktop CD

2018-03-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, shirish wrote: > > $ ./check_debian_iso SHA1SUMS debian-buster-DI-alpha2-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso > > /dev/sdb > > Does not look like an ISO 9660 filesystem: '/dev/sdb' magic=' ' check_debian_iso reads the ISO image size from the medium in order to know where to stop checksumming. That's because

Re: have a mate-desktop CD was Re: magnet links and pushing them to meta-search engines.

2018-03-16 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 16, 2018, at 1:03 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Lastly, would it be possible to have a mate-desktop CD apart from the >> xfce one. While choice of desktop environment is certainly a personal >> choice, I feel it's a good lightweight yet at the same time fully >> functional desktop environ

Re: have a mate-desktop CD was Re: magnet links and pushing them to meta-search engines.

2018-03-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ Dropped the mate list - this isn't relevant there... ] On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 12:38:33AM +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: >. > >Dear Thomas, > >In response to https://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2018/03/msg5.html > >Thank you for sharing the info. I probably will try to get a couple of >usb stick

Re: have a mate-desktop CD

2018-03-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 07:45:51PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: >Hi, > >shirish wrote: >> As I was on MS-Windows had to resort to using a variety of softwares >> trying out rufus and other softwares. For some reason, other than >> unetbootin none of the others worked. > >Did you run Rufus in its "D

Re: have a mate-desktop CD was Re: magnet links and pushing them to meta-search engines.

2018-03-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey Shirish! On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 10:22:20PM +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: > >As I was on MS-Windows had to resort to using a variety of softwares >trying out rufus and other softwares. For some reason, other than >unetbootin none of the others worked. But this was also only limited >to the alpha

Re: have a mate-desktop CD was Re: magnet links and pushing them to meta-search engines.

2018-03-16 Thread shirish शिरीष
. Dear Thomas, In response to https://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2018/03/msg5.html Thank you for sharing the info. I probably will try to get a couple of usb sticks next week for work and probably will also try to see how rufus responds and if possible get in touch with Pete Batard to take t

Re: have a mate-desktop CD

2018-03-14 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, shirish wrote: > Just read Thomas's reply on the debian-cd mailing list specifically > https://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2018/03/msg3.html . Please CC > me in further correspondence in this regard as I'm not subscribed to > the list . I assumed you were subscribed because the "X-Spam-Sta

Re: have a mate-desktop CD was Re: magnet links and pushing them to meta-search engines.

2018-03-13 Thread shirish शिरीष
:at bottom :- On 10/03/2018, shirish शिरीष wrote: > > As I was on MS-Windows had to resort to using a variety of softwares > trying out rufus and other softwares. For some reason, other than > unetbootin none of the others worked. But this was also only limited > to the alpha build, the others

Re: have a mate-desktop CD

2018-03-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, shirish wrote: > As I was on MS-Windows had to resort to using a variety of softwares > trying out rufus and other softwares. For some reason, other than > unetbootin none of the others worked. Did you run Rufus in its "DD" mode ? https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/issues/843 "DD is an ex