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On Tuesday, December 18, 2018, 7:06:26 AM UTC, Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> wrote:
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<div>Quoting Paul Zander (<a shape="rect" href="mailto:paulz@ieee.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">paulz@ieee.org</a>):<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> My purpose for using a computer is to accomplish certain tasks. <br clear="none">>...<br clear="none">> release but where in other releases. However, it appeared to be<br clear="none">> easier to try use *ubuntu. <br clear="none"><br clear="none">OK, sure, try that for a while.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">When you wish to try Debian again, with access to cutting-edge<br clear="none">applications, the relatively easy way is to start with one of the<br clear="none">quarterly Siduction installable live ISOs. Or you can use my<br clear="none">apt-pinning trick to run Debian-testing with optional access to<br clear="none">Debian-unstable packages whenever you want it.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">(Personally, I'd always prefer Siduction _over_ Debian Live, but some<br clear="none"><div>people claim to be nervous about something based on Debian-unstable.)</div><div><br></div><div>I WILL HAVE TO TRY SIDUCTION IN THE NEAR FUTURE. <br></div><br clear="none">> Since that live CD includes partition tools and dd and other things, I could use it as the rescue disk. <br clear="none"><br clear="none">Yeah, you _could_. But it's not great for that.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> I would be interested in what should be the minimum selection of tools<br clear="none">> on a rescue disk?<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div>Well, what do you want to be able to do?</div><div><br></div><div><span><div>MANY NEW COMPUTERS DO NOT HAVE AN OPTICAL DRIVE. IT WILL</div><div>HAVE TO BE ON A USB. THIS ELIMINATES THE CONSTRAINT OF PACKING IT</div></span><div><span>IN LESS THAN 700MB.</span>IN PREVIOUS EMAIL, <br></div><div><br></div><div>MENTION WAS MADE OF PARTITION TOOL AND WRITING ZEROS.</div></div><div><br></div><div>VIRTUALLY ALL LIVE DISTROS INCLUDE SOME PARTITION TOOL. <br></div><div>IF YOU LIKE fdisk, FINE. PERSONALLY I WOULD PREFER A GUI</div><div>I HAVE USED fdisk SO SELDOM THAT I WOULD SPEND 90% OF <br></div><div>MY EFFORT FIGURING OUT EXACTLY WHAT TO TYPE.<br></div><div><br></div><div>THE FOLLOWING WILL FILL THE PARTITION WITH ZEROS.<br></div><div><span>
</span><div><span><p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=1M</p></span><span></span><div><br></div><div>ALTERNATIVELY YOU COULD MOUNT THE PARTITION AND USE <br></div><div>THE FOLLOWING TO CREATE A FILE NAMED ZEROS.<br></div><div><span><span>dd if=/dev/zero of=<PATH>/ZEROS bs=1M</span></span></div><div><span><span><br></span></span></div><div><span><span>I HAVE USED THE LATER. WHEN THE PARTITION IS FULL, THE</span></span></div><div><span><span>PROCESSES TERMINATES WITH AN ERROR, BUT THE FILE IS GOOD.</span></span><br></div></div><br></div>> A related question is, how difficult is it to create a new live CD? <br clear="none">> I mean creating a new ISO file. Or modifying an existing ISO. The<br clear="none">> answer could be as short as, "It ain't easy". Or maybe it really<br clear="none">> isn't too difficult. Then one could create a custom rescue drive.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">The verbs you want to search on for any given distro are probably either<br clear="none">'remaster' or 'respin'. So, for example, searching 'remaster debian'<br clear="none"><div>brings up a bunch of links of interest. Which see.</div><div><br></div><div>YES THAT SEARCH GIVES MANY HITS. AND THE FIRST ONE I LOOKED AT</div><div>SUGGESTED A USE THAT WAS BEHIND MY ORIGINAL QUESTION. <br></div><div>SAVE A NEW CUSTOM INSTALL INCLUDING THE BUNCH OF APS <br></div><div>THAT I WANT.<br></div><div><br></div><br clear="none">But personally, I'd just use one of the excellent maintenance-focussed<br clear="none">distros that already exist. (And, again, _if_ I encountered an irritating<br clear="none">lack of good Linux driver support in, say, SuperRescueCD for some<br clear="none">spanking-new chipset, say, a SATA chip that is really new, I'd reach for<br clear="none">Siduction because of its very current kernel, hence driver collection<br clear="none">and hardware-recognition.)<br clear="none"><div class="ydpfd8c579ayqt3012381149" id="ydpfd8c579ayqtfd52237"><div><br></div><div>AGAIN, WHAT TOOLS WOULD I WANT IN SUCH A DISTRO?<br></div><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">conspire mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">conspire@linuxmafia.com</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire</a><br clear="none"></div></div>
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