From: Tixy on 23 Jul 2010 14:50 On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 22:51 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Is there official live CDs? Yesterday I saw "Debian Live squeeze alpha2" announced, see: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/07/msg00006.html -- Tixy () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign (www.asciiribbon.org) /\ Against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1279910378.2257.8.camel(a)computer2.home
From: Tzafrir Cohen on 23 Jul 2010 16:30 On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 10:57:53PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Tzafrir: > > > Actually, a simple dd should work. > No. Almost never works. Worked forme, last time I tried (with a CD). > > > Could you please be more specific as to the version? Both Debian and > > Ubuntu keep copies of older images. > > Well. I need exact sizes of the images of ubuntu - 8.10 and 9.04 . > May, You know of such a storage on Inet - from the their releases site I did not get it - they > write in Mb while I need bytes... Sorry, my mistake. I was sure it was available at archive.deian.org . I can't find it. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzafrir(a)jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzafrir(a)cohens.org.il | | best tzafrir(a)debian.org | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100723202730.GK17569(a)pear.tzafrir.org.il
From: Tzafrir Cohen on 23 Jul 2010 16:40 On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 10:51:13PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Rob: > > > I saw you mentioned live cds as well. Debian has the tools to build > > your own live cd. The command line tool is live-helper, and there's a > > GUI called live-magic. > > Is there official live CDs? http://live.debian.net/ -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzafrir(a)jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzafrir(a)cohens.org.il | | best tzafrir(a)debian.org | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100723202911.GL17569(a)pear.tzafrir.org.il
From: Robert Holtzman on 23 Jul 2010 20:50 On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 10:54:48PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Clive: > > > You might want to read > > http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/coasterless.htm > > - especially the section "Accurately Reading a CD Device". > > I have read an article on the tompic from ubuntu's site. Now I have > another problem: n order to retrive iso from burned CD/DVDs I have to > know their exact size, but I can not find them for old versions of > Ubuntu (it is what I used to repair my OS). May, You know of such a > storage on Inet - from the their releases site I did not get it - they > write in Mb while I need bytes... I'm confused. Please educate me. 1) Why do you need to know the *exact* size of the iso? 2) do you not know how to convert Mb to bytes? -- Bob Holtzman Key ID: 8D549279 "If you think you're getting free lunch, check the price of the beer"
From: Rob Owens on 23 Jul 2010 20:50
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 08:29:18PM +0000, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 10:51:13PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > > Thank You for Your time and answer, Rob: > > > > > I saw you mentioned live cds as well. Debian has the tools to build > > > your own live cd. The command line tool is live-helper, and there's a > > > GUI called live-magic. > > > > Is there official live CDs? > > http://live.debian.net/ > I've always had a hard time with the term "official" when it comes to Debian. The live CDs at the above link are built by the Debian package maintainer of the live-helper package. That's about as official as you can get without a Debian release manager being in charge of it, I guess. -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100724004145.GB4359(a)aurora.owens.net |