Chungy
the following commands are 100% equivalent:
cp reactos.iso /dev/sdx
cat < reactos.iso > /dev/sdx
dd of=/dev/sdx < reactos.iso
dd if=reactos.iso > /dev/sdx
dd if=reactos.iso of=/dev/sdx
pv reactos.iso > /dev/sdx
Tobiyo
wait, where the distincting between burning the file and copying the file into the stick?
Chungy
There's often multiple ways to do things. I'd generally recommend sticking to cp or pv for these copying tasks.
Chungy
wait, where the distincting between burning the file and copying the file into the stick?
Writing to the device file doesn't write to any kind of file system on the device. You should make sure everything's unmounted before you do it, too.
Tobiyo
ah the file system, interesting
Tobiyo
so you're kinda overwriting the filesystem
Chungy
You're writing to the device directly, yes, which is represented as a file.
Chungy
Might be worth noting that dd's original purpose for existing was to convert text files between ASCII and EBCDIC. The notion of using it to manage hardware devices was somewhat ridiculous in the 1970s.
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Woaw bro
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https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/224314
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Im a distro developer
Chungy
haha, similar list
Tobiyo
👀
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Spent my 10 years Linux
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Im also a distro developer
Chungy
I've been using Linux since 1998 :P
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And I see this just right npw
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Its riddiculus😂
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I believe myself as a veteran in Linux but 😂😂
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🤦🏼♂️
Tobiyo
just my third year hehe
Chungy
CD drives tend to be special and I think on Linux you've never been able to burn an *.iso file to a CD-R/DVD-R by the cp command. I think that actually is possible on OpenBSD though.
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Im developing a distro and I seethis just now
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😂😂
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Can I send you messages like Tell me something that I dont know😂😂
Tobiyo
heh guess this means that could just create an iso of my current setup like that too hehe
Chungy
I did notice the shift toward dd in general purpose block device copies in the early 2000s. I think it's mostly a result of DOS and Windows converts that believed there must be a special hardware tool.
Chungy
Yeah you can clone an entire hard disk with something like cp /dev/sda disk.img
Tobiyo
while mounted?
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heh guess this means that could just create an iso of my current setup like that too hehe
I just happy with dd 😂😂 I used it with status=progress parameter just like a illumuniation
Tobiyo
thought so 😂😂
Chungy
There's often more efficient actually-special programs to copy the in-use blocks, or use a file archiver like tar or wimcapture
Tobiyo
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heh guess this means that could just create an iso of my current setup like that too hehe
If you ask for distro. No. It is independent base and it have its own packages and package manager
Chungy
Copying literally everything including "unused" blocks still has its purposes, especially in forensics or trying to recover deleted files.
Tobiyo
If you ask for distro. No. It is independent base and it have its own packages and package manager
hm? what do you mean? i meant turning my harddrive into an iso to move the setup
Tobiyo
Copying literally everything including "unused" blocks still has its purposes, especially in forensics or trying to recover deleted files.
oh cool that's technically skipped with cp i suppose
Tobiyo
i guess dd would be faster if you used bigger blocks
Chungy
cp will copy everything. From cp's point of view, hard disks like /dev/sda are just a big, often terabytes large, file to read from (or write to, if you go that direction). Doesn't care about the contents such as partition table or file systems structures, it'll copy everything.
Chungy
For faster disk imaging in more typical cases, look into sfdisk to clone partition tables and partclone to copy only in-use file system blocks. Clonezilla combines all of it into a fairly easy to use program.
Tobiyo
Jeff
O wasn't able to install any driver. O wish there was a way to force it
Jeff
is the /dev/null in your name just to show that you know a bit of unix/linux so you try to be a cool kid?
I'm a Linux user since 2006. I've been using it for working and daily use. The /dev/null is just kind of a joke, used to catch asshole's attention.
Jeff
ATI drivers complains about MFC42.dll
Alejandro Jeditobe
ATI drivers complains about MFC42.dll
There is an installer for this library in RAPPS
Jeff
And is there any way to manually select a driver to install?
Julen
ATI drivers complains about MFC42.dll
MFC42 could be installed by Rapps. And see how it breaks.
Esteban
What will be the projects for Google's summer of code?
rosbridge
<hbelusca (Gmunu=8PiG/c4Tmunu+)> they are TBD
rosbridge
<hbelusca (Gmunu=8PiG/c4Tmunu+)> but https://reactos.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2021_Ideas
rosbridge
<hbelusca (Gmunu=8PiG/c4Tmunu+)> this is just a copy of the 2020 ideas so far.
rosbridge
<hbelusca (Gmunu=8PiG/c4Tmunu+)> We need simpler projects for this year because the gsoc allotted time is less than usual.
Esteban
Stas'M
Stas'M
join here: https://play.live.linux-tage.de/
Stas'M
BieHDC
is there a way to textchat?
BieHDC
if its you, i can hear you
BieHDC
where
Stas'M
(button at bottom left)
Stas'M
(while you are in circle)
BieHDC
found it
BieHDC
lmao hacker420 srsly went in with his name
hacker12455
yes
hacker12455
cuz why not
BieHDC
that thing is kinda buggy
BieHDC
ah wtf, i just noticed that dreimer imported his waifu
hacker12455
lmao
BieHDC
i am going back to learning, someone ping me if something interesting is going on
Alessandro
Hi, I created a VM with reactos and now I would like to expand the system partition, is there any way to do that?
hacker12455
you mean the ReactOS partition?
Alessandro
I tried to expand the partition from parted on linux, diskpart shows the new dimension but if I try to install some software it says there is not enough space, showing the older dimension
Mike
Question: did anyone try using Netflix on reactos?
Eris
counter question: why dont you try it
Mike
counter question: why dont you try it
Because I don't have Netflix, else I'd have tried it 😊