Thank you all! Wiz, this place is great! Here there be Dragons, true, but also Wizards. It is good. Coincidental, true words. Rocketing, Rocket League sounds like great fun. My Dad and I used to build and fire off model rockets back in the day. Slot cars too. -Another gem from Ed Woods, “The Lobster Man from Mars” is, I think, a must-see for you as it is right on your “line of trajectory”. AlexZee, thank you, I will copy and use the ‘cheats’ and watch for your articles.
I've used nano only a few times, in the past, with a mixture of trepidation and lucky success. I've begun to school myself on the topic now, and I see that 'Visual Studio Code' is rated highly for use by beginners as well as for it's advanced features. Looking forward to it, but for now first comes first.
I`m now running on puppy. I also have a usb drive booting LMDE 6 copied from an old dvd by Pudd. (Thanks, loyal pup.) Didn't know if it would boot, but delighted when it did. Still am. And WITHOUT the (IMHO) dreaded ISO 9660 I have come to (rightly or wrongly) loathe, despise, and hate.
Maybe it does exist somewhere, perhaps a Wizard might know; a formula to remove the dreaded thing without harm to the patient, and without the need for an Epic quest involving dd, gparted, fsck and e2fsck, disks, and more! All while possibly (likely?) causing more damage to the already afflicted silicon. I've come to understand that writing over corrupted territory can cause additional, even permanent damage. And it may be too late for some of my gear. A bit of mine seems to show damage despite continuing to work so far, and while generating the Gparted error message: 'the backup gpt table is corrupt, but the primary appears okay, so that will be used'. One previously good microSD card is now invisible to all devices. One usb drive, one ssd drive, and one hdd drive now boot only to the grub boot page that reads: “GNU GRUB version 2.12-9+deb13u2 Minimal Bash-like editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions.
Anywhere else. TAB lists possible device or file completions. To enable less (1)-like paging."Set pager=1"
grub>_”
So my priorities now are,if possible, to restore one or both HDs to working condition, ready for fresh install(s). If one or more possible shortcut fixes may be possible in the “BASH-like line editing”, I’m game to give that a try as well.
While the stick that boots to the grub page already contains an installer, if needs must I'm willing to free up another one after I'm confident it can be cleansed of the 9660 afterward so it can return to its regular work.
A spokesman for Sandisk has said that their flash drives will sometimes lock themselves as they begin to fail in order to preserve data access. I have one of theirs. A 64gb microSD that went locky on me sometime over the past few weeks. A young drive, never 9660'd, and it had always worked flawlessly before. Just up and locked...Can a bad usb port damage a drive? I imagine one could look up the pinouts, and then check to see that the voltage is strictly where and what it should be. The site pinouts.ru is good for that.
Posts abound questioning how and if a usb stick can have another life after 9660. For all I know, the damage might be solely from our under /or ill-informed attempts to clear the drive for another use. It seems to me that the beast sinks its claws deep into it’s intended prey, and fights strongly against attempts to remove it from it’s host.
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-- (Cue theme music from “The Twilight Zone”)
Narrated in a Rod Serling voice: Consider, if you will, that neither the purveyors and distrubutors of computer operating systems and related software, nor the manufacturers of various data storage hardware, have ever made any efforts to educate members of the computing public in regards to any ‘Best Practices’ for the safe removal of the ISO 9660 format when it becomes desirable for the end user to do so.* Consider, also, the effects of such a widespread lack of understanding among the buyers and users of such digital storage devices; and as well, on the lifespans, turnover, and sales of said devices.
Case in point: “The Lightbulb Conspiracy”. A tale, that, while entertaining and humorous, sheds light on a dark topic. A story of one man’s struggle to make his inkjet printer print again. A birthday celebration in a small rural American town’s fire station where a lightbulb has been burning continuously for 100 years. And a look at modern manufacturing processes and priorities.
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*Disclaimer: This statement is true only to the best of this author’s limited knowledge. As always, I may be wrong; though in my many years of related practice and research, I have never yet seen any evidence to the contrary.
