[sf-lug] most of my iso files are stashed

[Bobbie Sellers]

On 11/16/2017 08:48 AM, Michael Paoli wrote:
> Is very handy to have lots of ISO files.  :-)
     Total agreement on that point.
>
> I used to, up until very recently, have a primary location for my
> collection thereof, be on an external "USB" drive (well, the enclosure
> is USB only, the drive in the enclosure itself isn't USB).
>
> Rather recently, got myself a quite nice sized SSD, and set that
> up as primary drive on laptop ... more than enough space to also
> have all the ISOs there ... and so they now are (and that's now my
> primary location for them).
     SSD of adequate size is beyond my means.  So was finding out that
the HP Pavilion was not repairable.  But the terabyte hard disk
was <$70 and the new case price as noted.
     But I got the drives swapped around and my new external Comkia
USB3.0 case works with it.  These cases are really inexpensive now
with the design refined & the Central Computer shop has them at
 >$20.  Much simpler to install than my old now likely broken NextStar
and lighter as well.
>
> Even consolidated some various bits I had floating/stashed around.
> E.g. had a TAILS 1.0 i386 ISO image (I think I'd copied that from optical
> or USB flash at an earlier SF-LUG meeting), ... but had never been able
> to earlier validate/verify it.  Did some more searching ...
> tracked down a .sig file, checked, and ... failed to verify.
> Checked/researched a bit more ... I found various bits suggesting
> that file should be about 900 MiB in size ... file I had was *much*
> larger.  Checked, and whole lot 'o ASCII nulls on the end.  I truncated
> it, rounding up to contain the last 2 KiB block that didn't have all
> ASCII nulls, and dropping everything after that.  Checked again,
> verification still failed.  Did some more checking/digging/research,
> this time to try and find precise size of original signed ISO ...
> did find what seemed to indicate that precise size - was slightly
> larger than what I'd trimmed to, ... so, I truncated(1)ed it to the
> slightly larger size (truncate(1) can also extend logical size,
> unwritten blocks are added as sparse), checked again and ... viola,
> it validated.  I did also find proper name of the original file
> along the way too - tails-i386-1.0.iso so I thusly renamed it.

     I gave up on copying TAILS but there is a new version available.
The complex .sig files and the lack of easily accessible checksums
seem to defeat the security if I am downloading and copying
the files.  I will get it if someone wants TAILS but they will
have to do the checksums and signature authentications.

>
> Anyway, for reference, "the" (my) collection:
> https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_and_images_etc
> Have all (or most all) of that now available on the laptop.  Might have
> some I've not bothered to put on drive - where I have optical, but it's
> "so old" I've not bothered to copy it to drive.
>
> I'll probably get around to some updated reporting on my hardware, etc.
> adventures.  Did cover some of that earlier, e.g.:
> https://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk/2017-October/000135.html
> but there's also been quite a bit more since then (mostly upgrade(s),
> more configuration bits, etc.).
>
> And yes, handy to have all those ISO images.  E.g. some of them, in
> trying to more fully check out exactly what they are, I'd just
> quickly set up a virtual machine configured to boot and run "live" from
> the CD(/DVD), booted that ISO and ... often much easier to inspect in
> detail that way, compared to just looking at the ISO itself and the
> files on it.
     Well I am still setting up the Dell and later today will swap in the
old drive from my HP Pavilion and install the later version of PCLinuxOS64
on it, if everything goes well.
>
>> From: "Bobbie Sellers" <bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com>
>> Subject: Re: [sf-lug] Next SF-LUG meeting Monday, November 20, from 6 
>> to 8 PM
>> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 13:38:56 -0800
>
>> works.   The portable drive in its new case is not seen
>> by the Dell.   That is where most of my iso files are stashed.

     Now fixed as reported earlier.

     I just tried out Fedora 27 Workstation and I do not much care for it.
If someone wants to seen my simple evaluation of the product send
me a note and I will mail it to you.

     Bobbie Sellers

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