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greenjeans

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Registered: 2017-04-07

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Re: Devuan 5 not Booting on 2005 Toshiba Tecra A7 Intel Centrino Duo

There is still documentation on the refracta website:
https://refracta.org/docs/readme.refracta2usb.txt

Have no idea how current it is . . .

As fsmithred once told me, it is for sure a huge swiss army knife of a program, but it can be confusing because it has so many options and things it can do, so there's a learning curve.  I asked him at one point why it wasn't still around but can't remember what he said about that.

I have a couple different USB sticks I made with it, one just a standard liveUSB, one with persistence. I also have a stick that I did a conventional install one with a swap partition and all just for an experiment, but I think I just used Refracta-installer to do that one.

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fsmithred

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Registered: 2016-11-25

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Re: Devuan 5 not Booting on 2005 Toshiba Tecra A7 Intel Centrino Duo

It is still around, but it's not in the repo. That would require some re-coding, and I'm afraid to mess with it.
This is only useful for live-isos, not for installer isos:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/refrac … b/download

mtbvfr

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Registered: 2017-07-29

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Re: Devuan 5 not Booting on 2005 Toshiba Tecra A7 Intel Centrino Duo

So guys what's the proper way to use wodim?

Should the command be the following?

wodim -eject dev=/dev/sr0 filename.iso

stargate-sg1-cheyenne-mtn

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Registered: 2023-11-27

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Re: Devuan 5 not Booting on 2005 Toshiba Tecra A7 Intel Centrino Duo

@mtbvfr

I was using Devuan 5 on a Dell Latitude 6530 to attempt to write to the DVD.

grabbed a lenovo y580 laptop which has the same era internals as your dell latitude e6530 and booted daedalus liveusb. in the accessories section of the menu you should find Xfburn. it has a "Burn Image" function that writes .ISO to CDs and DVDs properly.

that being said, your 2005 Toshiba Tecra A7 Intel Centrino Duo machine with 512MB of ram will not perform enjoyably and/or satisfactorily with the vast majority of current *nix/bsd/etc. distributions. if the machine won't boot from usb media and you don't want to burn through a bunch of cd/dvd disks(harder to find and more expensive these days), probably the best course of action is to learn how to physically remove the hard drive and use a usb adapter to properly format, partition, and install some lightweight stuff so you can both achieve some success and gain some valuable experience, insight, and troubleshooting acumen.

current lightweight offerings include distros like FreeDOS, Puppy Linux, Slitaz, Tiny Core Linux, and the like.

hopefully this helps. keep us posted on your progress.

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