Hello, In the Message; Subject : Re: DVD testing [WAS: Re: RESOLVED {nvidia JUNKED} ...Re: 50% BINGO Re: nvidia g05 or nouveau in TW Live/Install?] Message-ID : <d3ebddec-c9d4-4a04-9c63-f8a2ed37b6b7@telefonica.net> Date & Time: Wed, 4 Sep 2024 03:50:48 +0200 [CER] == "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net> has written: [...] MN> > It's not a copy. MN> > Read the thread again to see what I'm letting him do. CER> I have been following the entire thread. CER> You are having him do a "dd" copy of the first gigabyte of the CER> DVD to null. That's done to test the DVD hardware and media. CER> dd if=/dev/sr0 of=/dev/null bs=1M count=1000 oflag=direct CER> You also asked to use yast in text mode to do an autocheck of CER> the installation media. A checksum test. Right. You would know that it's suspicious to talk about a live DVD when there is a read error. If he has an external DVD drive and /dev/sr0 means he doesn't have an internal DVD drive.... Best Regards. --- ┏━━┓彡 Masaru Nomiya mail-to: nomiya @ lake.dti.ne.jp ┃＼／彡 ┗━━┛ "Maddox hopes that empowering users to pick their own algorithms will get them to think more about what’s involved in making them. " -- Bluesky's Custom Algorithms Could Be the Future of Social Media --