Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

Hi, > Hmm, I thought the 'count=' stuff was only needed for CD-ROMs. Again, I > prefer to keep things simple and would rather use just: > > md5sum /dev/sdb This will not give you the MD5 of the image that was copied to the beginning of the storage device, unless the image size is exactly th

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

On Du, 02 mar 14, 12:30:54, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > > On Sb, 01 mar 14, 14:38:14, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > root@minimal-squeeze:/home/richard# dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 > > > count=1939608 of=/home/richard/myiso1.iso conv=notrunc > > > [...] > > > root@minimal-squeeze:/home/richard# dd i

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

On 2 March 2014 22:20, David wrote: On 2 March 2014 23:54, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > >> I would like to have more information about this "read ahead bug", but >> I cannot find a full bug report or similar technical discussion of it. > > [snip interesting information] Thank you again Thomas for sha

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

Hi, > I would like to have more information about this "read ahead bug", but > I cannot find a full bug report or similar technical discussion of it. dd count= will not save you from it. It is in the block device driver of Linux for CD reading. CD media can bear sectors which do not represent da

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: > My starting point is a purchased multi DVD set of Wheezy(7.1.0). > My goal is a single bootable flash drive with an unstated presumption > that it would be formatted FAT16 or FAT32. isoinfo reports the flash > drive is ISO 9660. Yes, it is. You copied it onto the stick

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

On Sat 01 Mar 2014 at 18:39:31 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > Brian wrote: > > > >d-i knows how to mount the ISO (otherwise all your installs would have > >failed). Now - what does it know that you don't? :) > > > > You be only one claiming omniscience ;/ The time to get worried is when moun

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 01 mar 14, 14:38:14, Richard Owlett wrote: root@minimal-squeeze:/home/richard# isoinfo -d -i /dev/cdrom ... Volume size is: 1939608 root@minimal-squeeze:/home/richard# dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 count=1939608 of=/home/richard/myiso1.iso conv=notrunc 1939608+0 record

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

Hi, > On Sb, 01 mar 14, 14:38:14, Richard Owlett wrote: > > root@minimal-squeeze:/home/richard# dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 > > count=1939608 of=/home/richard/myiso1.iso conv=notrunc > > [...] > > root@minimal-squeeze:/home/richard# dd if=/home/richard/myiso1.iso > > bs=2048 count=1939608 of=/dev/sdb

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

On 02/03/14 22:06, Richard Owlett wrote: > Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 02/03/14 11:39, Richard Owlett wrote: >>> Brian wrote: On Sat 01 Mar 2014 at 14:38:14 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > Created myiso1.iso from Wheezy(7.1) DVD 1 of 10 using dd and then > used dd to copy it to a U

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, i am the developer of xorriso, which created the image in question under control of the debian-cd package. Debian i386 images are ISO 9660 filesystems with El Torito Boot Record to boot from CD/DVD/BD, and with Master Boot Record, which enables them to boot from hard d

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

On 2 March 2014 20:41, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 01 mar 14, 14:38:14, Richard Owlett wrote: >> >> root@minimal-squeeze:/home/richard# isoinfo -d -i /dev/cdrom > ... >> Volume size is: 1939608 >> root@minimal-squeeze:/home/richard# dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 >> count=1939608 of=/home/richard/myi

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

Scott Ferguson wrote: On 02/03/14 11:39, Richard Owlett wrote: Brian wrote: On Sat 01 Mar 2014 at 14:38:14 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: Created myiso1.iso from Wheezy(7.1) DVD 1 of 10 using dd and then used dd to copy it to a USB flash drive. I was able to boot from the flash drive and do se

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

On Sb, 01 mar 14, 14:38:14, Richard Owlett wrote: > > root@minimal-squeeze:/home/richard# isoinfo -d -i /dev/cdrom ... > Volume size is: 1939608 > root@minimal-squeeze:/home/richard# dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 > count=1939608 of=/home/richard/myiso1.iso conv=notrunc > 1939608+0 records in > 1939608+

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

Hi, i am the developer of xorriso, which created the image in question under control of the debian-cd package. Debian i386 images are ISO 9660 filesystems with El Torito Boot Record to boot from CD/DVD/BD, and with Master Boot Record, which enables them to boot from hard disk and USB stick. If y

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

On 02/03/14 18:59, David wrote: > On 2 March 2014 18:54, David wrote: >> On 2 March 2014 18:32, Scott Ferguson >> wrote: >>> >>> For some reason your posts have broken threads and I can't find the >>> first one. :/ >> >> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/02/thrd3.html#01175 > > or > > h

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

On 2 March 2014 18:54, David wrote: > On 2 March 2014 18:32, Scott Ferguson > wrote: >> >> For some reason your posts have broken threads and I can't find the >> first one. :/ > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/02/thrd3.html#01175 or https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/03/threa

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

On 2 March 2014 18:32, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > For some reason your posts have broken threads and I can't find the > first one. :/ https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/02/thrd3.html#01175 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

On 02/03/14 11:39, Richard Owlett wrote: > Brian wrote: >> On Sat 01 Mar 2014 at 14:38:14 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: >> >>> Created myiso1.iso from Wheezy(7.1) DVD 1 of 10 using dd and then >>> used dd to copy it to a USB flash drive. >>> >>> I was able to boot from the flash drive and do several

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

Brian wrote: On Sat 01 Mar 2014 at 14:38:14 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: Created myiso1.iso from Wheezy(7.1) DVD 1 of 10 using dd and then used dd to copy it to a USB flash drive. I was able to boot from the flash drive and do several installs (different DE's). *HOWEVER* I can *NOT* mount the

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

On Sat 01 Mar 2014 at 14:38:14 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > Created myiso1.iso from Wheezy(7.1) DVD 1 of 10 using dd and then > used dd to copy it to a USB flash drive. > > I was able to boot from the flash drive and do several installs > (different DE's). > > *HOWEVER* I can *NOT* mount the f

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

On 2 March 2014 07:38, Richard Owlett wrote: > > Created myiso1.iso from Wheezy(7.1) DVD 1 of 10 using dd and then used dd to > copy it to a USB flash drive. > > I was able to boot from the flash drive and do several installs (different > DE's). > > *HOWEVER* I can *NOT* mount the flash drive to v

Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

Richard Owlett wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: David wrote: [snip] The first link I provided is still valid, and provides instructions how to create an iso file from cd media. Did you try this? What happens when you follow those instructions? I made one attempt but dd effectively ignored me. A

Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.

On 23/02/14 21:00, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sun, 23 Feb 2014 11:45:26 +1100 > David wrote: > >> whereas if you know that you do actually want the output file, it will >> be quicker to >> read it once and then checksum the file like this: >> # dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 count=23150592 conv=notru

Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.

Richard Owlett wrote: David wrote: [snip] The first link I provided is still valid, and provides instructions how to create an iso file from cd media. Did you try this? What happens when you follow those instructions? I made one attempt but dd effectively ignored me. A reply in this thread a

Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.

Hi. On Sun, 23 Feb 2014 11:45:26 +1100 David wrote: > whereas if you know that you do actually want the output file, it will > be quicker to > read it once and then checksum the file like this: > # dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 count=23150592 conv=notrunc,noerror > cd.iso > # md5sum cd.iso You

Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.

On 23 February 2014 02:57, Richard Owlett wrote: > Richard Owlett wrote: >> >> David wrote: >>> >>> Sometime between then and now, it seems that the >>> debian-reference has >>> been edited and that information has entirely disappeared from >>> the current >>> version, and so the above debian.org

Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.

Richard Owlett wrote: David wrote: [SNIP] See also: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch10 Section 10.3 and especially 10.3.6 following "you can ... make the ISO9660 image directly from the CD-ROM device as follows" I've found other portions of that work valuable in the pas

Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.

David wrote: On 21 February 2014 23:32, Richard Owlett wrote: I have *NO* internet connectivity. I have Squeeze installed. I have complete DVD install set. I want to re-create the ISO files from which they came. A month ago (http://lists.debian.org/52e270fb.7070...@cloud85.net) in another t

Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.

Darac Marjal wrote: On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 02:10:05PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Friday 21 February 2014 12:32:00 Richard Owlett wrote: I have *NO* internet connectivity. You must have some internet connectivity, somewhere, in order to be able to converse with this list. :-/ Yes, but send

Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.

Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2014-02-21 at 14:10 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Friday 21 February 2014 12:32:00 Richard Owlett wrote: I have *NO* internet connectivity. You must have some internet connectivity, somewhere, in order to be able to converse with this list. :-/ No, the OP must not

Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.

On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 02:10:05PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 21 February 2014 12:32:00 Richard Owlett wrote: > > I have *NO* internet connectivity. > > You must have some internet connectivity, somewhere, in order to be > able to converse with this list. :-/ Yes, but sending DVD ISOs

Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.

On Fri, 2014-02-21 at 14:10 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 21 February 2014 12:32:00 Richard Owlett wrote: > > I have *NO* internet connectivity. > > You must have some internet connectivity, somewhere, in order to be > able to converse with this list. :-/ No, the OP must not have access t

Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.

On Friday 21 February 2014 12:32:00 Richard Owlett wrote: > I have *NO* internet connectivity. You must have some internet connectivity, somewhere, in order to be able to converse with this list. :-/ Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.

Dan Purgert wrote: On 21/02/2014 07:32, Richard Owlett wrote: I have *NO* internet connectivity. I have Squeeze installed. I have complete DVD install set. I want to re-create the ISO files from which they came. I suspect I'm missing something obvious ;/ HELP ;> First off ... why're you lo

Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.

On 21 February 2014 23:32, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I have *NO* internet connectivity. > I have Squeeze installed. > I have complete DVD install set. > > I want to re-create the ISO files from which they came. A month ago (http://lists.debian.org/52e270fb.7070...@cloud85.net) in another thread w

Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.

On Fri, 2014-02-21 at 07:47 -0500, Dan Purgert wrote: > First off ... why're you looking to re-create the ISO images if you've already > got them hard-copy on the DVDs? > > "sudo dd -if /dev/dvd[*] -of Squeeze_disc_N.iso[**]" should probably cover > what > you need to do. Running it as root is p

Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.

On 21/02/2014 07:32, Richard Owlett wrote: > I have *NO* internet connectivity. > I have Squeeze installed. > I have complete DVD install set. > > I want to re-create the ISO files from which they came. > > I suspect I'm missing something obvious ;/ > > HELP ;> > > > > First off ... why're

Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.

I have *NO* internet connectivity. I have Squeeze installed. I have complete DVD install set. I want to re-create the ISO files from which they came. I suspect I'm missing something obvious ;/ HELP ;> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub