On 2024-09-04 05:03, Masaru Nomiya wrote:
Hello,
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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....
Huh? In my case, I have an internal Blue Ray drive, and it is named sr0. cer@Telcontar:~> l /dev/dvd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Sep 4 12:46 /dev/dvd -> sr0 cer@Telcontar:~> cer@Telcontar:~> l /dev/sr0 brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 0 Sep 4 12:46 /dev/sr0 cer@Telcontar:~> -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.5 x86_64 at Telcontar)