Re: Distro tries to set up own partition

[Carlos E.R.]

On 2023-03-26 21:07, jeshgrca wrote:
> "Carlos E.R." <robin_...@es.invalid> writes:
>
>> On 2023-03-26 15:35, jeshgrca wrote:
>>> "27E.G756" <27E....@noq24u.net> writes:
>>>
>>>> On 3/25/23 7:30 AM, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>>>>> On 2023-03-24 21:27, vjp...@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:
>>>>>> I welcome and appreciate these comments, but am not sure I fully
>>>>>> understand
>>>>>> them yet:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *+->
>>>>>> *+->  ?? 'dd' could do the copy too - but you have to be REALLY
>>>>>> *+->  ?? sure about the exact dest point on the hdd.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *+-The procedure would be:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *+- - Create a partition (empty) in that 10g empty space
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *+- - dd the iso into the partition
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *+-dd if=/dev/sr0 of=/dev/sdXy bs=1MiB
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *+-Not sure it can be booted.
>>>>> If you don't understand this then I'm not going to explain. Too
>>>>> dangerous, sorry.
>>>>> Go the virtualbox route instead.
>>>>
>>>> Absolutely agreed. Our 'tricks' can TRASH his
>>>> whole system if not done *perfectly* ... and
>>>> he doesn't seem to be extremely experienced
>>>> with -IX systems.
>>>>
>>>> VBox WILL do what he desires - pretty easily and
>>>> cleanly and at no risk. His old disrto will even
>>>> gain some perks by "filtering through" the VBox
>>>> system.
>>>>
>>>> Hmmm ... you'd THINK a live distro with all those
>>>> math/stat extras would have been perpetuated by
>>>> somebody. "Scientific Linux" might have been it,
>>>> but that seems to have fallen a bit by the
>>>> proverbial wayside (as with all the RPM universe
>>>> after the IBM/RHEL thing).
>>>>
>>> openSUSE is an RPM-based distro whose downstream (SLE) is
>>> officially
>>> supported by IBM on their systems, and it works perfectly well for me...
>>
>> It is actually the other way round: SLE is upstream of openSUSE
>> Leap. openSUSE Leap and SLE are binary compatible. With extra
>> packages, like Plasma, coming directly from the community instead.
>
> I apologize for being unclear; I use Tumbleweed, not Leap. Tumbleweed,
> from my understanding, is only downstream to Factory.

Ok.

Tumbleweed and Factory are the same thing. An alias. It is just that
some of the servers/services/repos keep the old name.

Tumbleweed is upstream, but loosely, to SLE/SLED.

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Cheers, Carlos.