On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Brian wrote:
> On Sun 13 Oct 2013 at 00:54:44 +, mark ryan wrote:
>
> > I was creating a bootable USB stick from an installer image on another
> > external hard drive. I did a cat debian-7.1.0-i386-netinst.iso > /dev/sdb
> > when I meant /dev/sdc. sdb was my
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 1:55 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>
> The problem is that you didn't delete it, but you've overwritten the
> data, OTOH the ISO is very small, so not very much is overwritten. First
> you need to try to recover the partition table. Assumed this should
> work, then mount the driv
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 10:52:33PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> The dd command was recommended on the off-chance GRUB might be put on
> the drive now or in the future; it will refuse to install.
I see, I didn't know that, thank you. Apparently grub-setup is the
bit that complains, and it can be made to
On Sun 13 Oct 2013 at 21:49:40 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 11:00:50AM +0100, Brian wrote:
> > The data on the drive are gone. Do
> >
> >dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb count=1
> >
> > to remove all traces of the iso you put on it and start from scratch.
>
> …why
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 11:00:50AM +0100, Brian wrote:
> The data on the drive are gone. Do
>
>dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb count=1
>
> to remove all traces of the iso you put on it and start from scratch.
…why? As things currently stand, the user could possibly reconstruct
the partition
Am Sonntag, 13. Oktober 2013, 11:00:50 schrieb Brian:
> On Sun 13 Oct 2013 at 00:54:44 +, mark ryan wrote:
> > I was creating a bootable USB stick from an installer image on another
> > external hard drive. I did a cat debian-7.1.0-i386-netinst.iso > /dev/sdb
> > when I meant /dev/sdc. sdb was
On Sun 13 Oct 2013 at 00:54:44 +, mark ryan wrote:
> I was creating a bootable USB stick from an installer image on another
> external hard drive. I did a cat debian-7.1.0-i386-netinst.iso > /dev/sdb
> when I meant /dev/sdc. sdb was my external drive with the iso on it, and
> other files. I am
The problem is that you didn't delete it, but you've overwritten the
data, OTOH the ISO is very small, so not very much is overwritten. First
you need to try to recover the partition table. Assumed this should
work, then mount the drive read only and use a tool to undelete files
for the original u
Howdy all,
I was creating a bootable USB stick from an installer image on another
external hard drive. I did a cat debian-7.1.0-i386-netinst.iso > /dev/sdb
when I meant /dev/sdc. sdb was my external drive with the iso on it, and
other files. I am now unable to mount that drive. What, if anything,
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