wa4chq Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 45 minutes ago, V.T. Eric Layton said: My preferred tools for disk work are fdisk and partd. There's not much that I can't do with those two. But then, Josh is correct about the fact that you still have to pay attention to what you're doing, or UGLINESS can result. I used to use fdisk all the time, especially with Slack...that's how we got the partition setup. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted February 8, 2022 Share Posted February 8, 2022 On 2/5/2022 at 7:22 AM, wa4chq said: OK... I notice tho sometimes an article about putting a distro onto a thumb drive will say something like this https://techcolleague.com/how-to-create-a-bootable-debian-linux-on-a-usb-flash-drive/ Scroll down to "Transfer the image file to your computer" That's why I did it. I used Gparted than dd. But if it's not necessary, I won't do the next time. i make it a habit to do so, just to make sure nothing- absolutely nothing- is hanging around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted February 8, 2022 Share Posted February 8, 2022 39 minutes ago, crp said: i make it a habit to do so, just to make sure nothing- absolutely nothing- is hanging around. Again, pointless to format when overwriting the entire disk with a disk image. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 21 hours ago, sunrat said: Again, pointless to format when overwriting the entire disk with a disk image. make sure it is good and gone. actually would need a few more , but good enough for most cases. just need to see a harddrive have its grooves checked once to become a believer in double down. and i still don't get how a malware survived on a SSD, my bet would be it has something to do with hidden system partitions that don't give up the charge all the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 Back to the real topic - Slackware is the oldest active distro? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 1 hour ago, crp said: Back to the real topic - Slackware is the oldest active distro? Yes sir. Beats Debian by a couple of months. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 And Patrick Volkerding has been maintaining it ever since. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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