[Steve McIntyre]
> (http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.html.en)
While it is refreshing to see "cat debian.iso > /dev/sdX" instead of
the usual dd nonsense (it seems there's an extremely widespread myth
that you need to use dd any time you're reading or writing block
devices), I t
[Samuel Thibault]
> > I think "cp" is even more straightforward.
>
> Does cp accept that way since a long time?
I'm not sure, but I've been using things like "cp boot.img /dev/fd0"
for probably 10 or 15 years on various Linux and Unix systems. (The
fact that I referred to a floppy drive may giv
[Steve McIntyre]
> The major win with dd onto a raw device is that you can specify the
> block size. For most USB sticks, using a block size of 4MB or so is
> going to be *much* faster than using the default for dd (512 bytes)
> or cp (10 KB IIRC).
That seemed a little fishy to me, since none of
[Steve McIntyre]
> You're not measuring the time taken to sync to the flash drive
> either, so all you're going to be seeing is the speed of writing to
> cache.
Huh, I figured the 'sync' call at the end of each test run covered
that.
> I've done lots of work with USB flash and MMC/SD cards over
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 11:15 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> > - database-server: commonly one would expect MySQL, and postgress gets
> > installed
[Paul Wise]
> Isn't tasksel for people with no expectations? People who know
> something about the technology they are looking for will install the
> r
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