[TriLUG] New disk woes ( 13th )

[David Burton via TriLUG]

On Sun, Aug 14, 2022 at 5:20 PM Brian McCullough via TriLUG <
trilug at trilug.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 14, 2022 at 11:18:23AM -0400, Bill Weinel wrote:
> >
> > Hi Brian,
> >
> > Sorry to hear about your installation troubles...
>
> That's life, isn't it?
>
>
> > I saw in some previous messages some had recommended using dd to copy
> disks.
> > While that works, you get minimal to no feedback until the dd task
> > completes. If it fails, you get to try again. :-(?? For future
> reference, I
>
> I specifically did not use DD, because I wanted the content, not the
> underlying format.
>
>
>
> > would recommend using Clonezilla for this task. It's free, it provides
> > excellent status information, and it does a much faster job of imaging
> your
> > hard drive to either other other hard drive, or to an image file for
> storage
> > and backup purposes.
>
> Thank you for the recommendation.
>

ddrescue is great.

Many years ago the author, Antonio Diaz, did a major rewrite, at my
suggestion, basically to my specs. He has continued to improve it
regularly, ever since. It comes pre-installed on Linux-based "rescue DVDs"
like PartedMagic and SystemRescue <https://www.system-rescue.org/>.



> > However, starting with a fresh install on a new drive is really the best
> way
> > of doing things... It gets rid of the old O/S configuration files which
> are
> > no longer used and cleans up your operating system environment. Also, by
> > using a new drive for the install, you still have the old drive
> available to
> > retrieve any needed data and to keep as a backup.
> >
> > BTW, there were some significant application changes between 20.04 and
> > 22.04. One major difference is the way Firefox runs. In previous systems
>
> Yes, I have been reading that, here.
>
> I ran into the Snap "problem" with an earlier version of Ubuntu, which I
> chose not to use.
>
>
> I tend to prefer Debian over Ubuntu, because it seems a little less
> overbearing.
>
> I think that I will also look at Steve's suggestion.
>
>
>
> > Creating USB installation sticks can also be a problem depending upon how
> > they are written.
>
> I usually use DD for that.  Just write the ISO to the USB stick.
>
>
>
> > I recommend using Balena Etcher to build an installer USB
> > stick, since it seems to produce a bootable USB installation stick every
> > time.??
>
> Thank you for this second recommendation.
>
>
>
>
> Brian
>
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