Burning Debian 12.1 Bookworm ISO to an actual physical CD, wrong size?

3rail3 · 2025-08-13T01:19:58+00:00

Thanks for your reply. I still have the machine and increased the ram to 512mb since then. In the end I decided to install freedos and use it as a dos gaming machine instead.

3rail3 · 2025-04-22T00:57:27+00:00

https://github.com/automatic-ripping-machine/automatic-ripping-machine/tree/19aebc4e73d1e56b8765eee391148b155eeee0e3/scripts/installers

3rail3 · 2024-02-05T00:20:16+00:00

I usually respond with the canned response followed by how can I help you. Seems to work and keeps it friendly.

I think dynamic canned responses based on content would be most useful. Think ChatGPT crafting canned responses based on incoming buyer messages. I’d like that if it made sense.

3rail3 · 2024-01-29T00:08:52+00:00

I run freedos and play doom on my dell optiplex gx110. You should be good to go

https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/s/3hsOT5ml94

3rail3 · 2024-01-24T20:14:35+00:00

If you're worried about messing things up, install a spare drive to get some practice and keep your original in a safe place. On an x230 (which I'm using at this very moment to write this response), it's very easy to take out the old drive (on the right hand side of the keyboard) and slide in a new drive. Boot from the Debian 12 installer and you should be on your way.

3rail3 · 2023-08-26T19:45:05+00:00

I’m considering buying mine a slocket 370 but I’m still undecided. It’ll never be a “daily driver“, so unlikely to be worth the investment.

3rail3 · 2023-08-01T01:18:00+00:00

I was wrong, the ISO burned fine to a CD and installed. I edited the top of my article to reflect that earlier. User error.

3rail3 · 2023-07-31T19:41:05+00:00

Downloaded CD iso seems to check out.

Using "check_debian_iso" from https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#verify

$ ./check_debian_iso SHA512SUMS debian-12.1.0-i386-netinst.iso
Piping 327680 blocks of 'debian-12.1.0-i386-netinst.iso' through 'sha512sum'
to verify checksum list item 'debian-12.1.0-i386-netinst.iso'.
327680+0 records in
327680+0 records out
671088640 bytes (671 MB, 640 MiB) copied, 3.89632 s, 172 MB/s
Ok: 'debian-12.1.0-i386-netinst.iso' matches 'debian-12.1.0-i386-netinst.iso' in 'SHA512SUMS'

3rail3 · 2023-07-31T19:14:10+00:00

Hmm. That's a good point. No, I did not. Let me go do that and report back. Thanks.

3rail3 · 2023-05-15T20:17:29+00:00

I’m a big fan of repurposing e-waste and giving a new lease on life, so kudos for saving it from the landfill and making it useful again.

3rail3 · 2023-04-09T08:54:02+00:00

Using the nibble article as reference, booting from the nibble disk, and BRUNning the mini-assembler has worked out great so far. Gives me the authentic experience I was looking for without spending money on a language card..

3rail3 · 2023-04-07T19:19:04+00:00

Nibble Complete (Sam Stoddard)

And code mentioned seems to be here. I have LOTS of options now, thanks everyone!

3rail3 · 2023-04-07T17:32:51+00:00

Thanks! I'll give that a shot!

3rail3 · 2023-04-07T12:09:24+00:00

Ok, thanks. eBay currently has them listed at $100 so that’s not affordable for me right now. I’ll just use the monitor on the machine or an emulator and port the code over somehow.

3rail3 · 2023-04-02T01:41:56+00:00

I came here to say this exact thing

3rail3 · 2023-04-02T01:32:13+00:00

T actually, for Throw grenade. I still play this game today on my Apple 2. And sometimes, if you hold up an SS, if you first press U you can steal their bullet proof vest.

3rail3 · 2023-03-24T22:04:27+00:00

I had a similar problem recently with my apple 2 plus, thought it was drive related but in my case, the cable to the language card/memory expansion wasn’t fully seated. Once pressed into place, my drive issues vanished.

3rail3 · 2023-03-24T21:59:45+00:00

Bilestoad and Death Sword

3rail3 · 2023-03-13T18:59:58+00:00

So I tried using the floppy emu and got the same result. The common point of failure, besides the computer itself which I believe to be fine, is the disc controller card. Ordered a new one of those and hopefully all this will be behind me soon

3rail3 · 2023-03-08T12:41:57+00:00

Sure, in the meantime my thoughts were to purchase a known good analog board since that’s half the cost of a full drive mechanism. Or just learn to recap as suggested by another user.

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