Installing an OS over the existing OS

[Phil]

On 16/2/23 14:31, Aaron Rainbolt wrote:
>
> On 2/15/23 22:28, Phil wrote:
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>> On 16/2/23 14:21, Aaron Rainbolt wrote:
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>>> On 2/15/23 22:18, Phil wrote:
>> That's really weird - you did mount the USB drive partition to /mnt 
>> right? I would expect DebianISO to be read-only, but not /mnt.
>>
>> Definitely read only and owner is phil.
>>
> That's extremely odd. Could you retry with a different USB? It seems 
> unusual, but perhaps the USB drive just now reached the end of its 
> lifespan and went into read-only mode to protect any data on the drive 
> (which, ironically, we just deleted :P). If a USB drive is mounting as 
> read-only and can't be remounted as read/write, that's usually a dead 
> drive.


Could there be a problem here?

$ sudo fdisk /dev/sdb

Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.38).
Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
Be careful before using the write command.

This disk is currently in use - repartitioning is probably a bad idea.
It's recommended to umount all file systems, and swapoff all swap
partitions on this disk.


Command (m for help): o

Created a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0xfdd4983e.

Command (m for help): n
Partition type
    p   primary (0 primary, 0 extended, 4 free)
    e   extended (container for logical partitions)
Select (default p):

Using default response p.
Partition number (1-4, default 1):
First sector (2048-31457279, default 2048):
Last sector, +/-sectors or +/-size{K,M,G,T,P} (2048-31457279, default 
31457279):

Created a new partition 1 of type 'Linux' and of size 15 GiB.

Command (m for help):

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Regards,
Phil