| === superm1` is now known as superm1 | ||
| CIA-2 | anna: cjwatson * r414 ubuntu/debian/ (28 files in 2 dirs): merge from Debian 1.33 | 08:17 |
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| CIA-2 | anna: cjwatson * r415 ubuntu/debian/po/ (am.po sk.po): branding fixes for Amharic and Slovak | 08:23 |
| CIA-2 | anna: cjwatson * r416 ubuntu/debian/changelog: releasing version 1.33ubuntu1 | 08:25 |
| CIA-2 | usb-creator: evand * r57 usb-creator/debian/changelog: Credit Daniel Nylander for the Swedish translation. | 15:32 |
| CIA-2 | usb-creator: evand * r58 usb-creator/debian/changelog: Move self.pipe declaration to the correct location (LP: #291645). | 15:41 |
| omegamormegil | I have a USB creator question. I purchased two 8GB sdhc cards, and gave one to a friend. We are both trying to use USB-creator in intrepid to make it bootable (with Xubuntu, for example). We are using identical USB card readers, so it functions just like a USB thumb drive. We can't get mine to boot properly, but his works fine. When I try to boot, I just get a black screen that says "GRUB" in the top left corner. I tried installing Ubun | 16:41 |
| omegamormegil | tu directly to the USB drive, and I could get it to boot. Any ideas? | 16:41 |
| evand | omegamormegil: Assuming you do not care about what's currently on the card and assuming /dev/sdb is your card: sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1; sudo blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sdb; usb-creator | 16:45 |
| evand | or just use usb-creator from bzr trunk | 16:46 |
| evand | please make sure you know what those commands do, as dd can be quite destructive if you point it at the wrong device | 16:47 |
| omegamormegil | yeah, I'm fairly familiar. I read your Open Week talk, and suspected it might have something to do with the MBR, since you noted people had some problems with that. Am I right? | 16:48 |
| evand | correct | 16:48 |
| omegamormegil | I'll try that now, and let you know. | 16:48 |
| evand | thanks | 16:48 |
| omegamormegil | Another question, while I'm here. Why does this use a vfat filesystem? Wouldn't ext3 work? | 16:53 |
| omegamormegil | Just curious. | 16:53 |
| evand | omegamormegil: because it's intended to be as non intrusive as possible. If you already have a vfat partition (as most USB disks do) with files on it, it wont delete them or format the device, it will install along side them | 16:54 |
| evand | I have to run, but I'll be back later in the day | 16:56 |
| evand | cheers | 16:56 |
| omegamormegil | Well, thats pretty cool. I think USB-creatoris an awesome tool, by the way. Thanks for the help. | 16:56 |
| omegamormegil | Thanks evand, that worked like a charm! | 17:19 |
| evand | glad to hear it, omegamormegil | 17:35 |
| evand | and thanks for the kind words | 17:35 |
| omegamormegil | Since the program is so non-intrusive, have you considered noting that fact in the USB-Creator GUI? I never doubted that this tool would wipe whatever USB disk I opted to use, and I was incorrect. | 17:37 |
| evand | mm, I'm concerned about making any promises like that this early in its development, plus the UI is already fairly wordy. | 17:38 |
| evand | I'm more inclined to put that in the documentation | 17:38 |
| evand | man page, help.ubuntu.com, etc | 17:39 |
| omegamormegil | Makes sense. | 17:45 |
| omegamormegil | Is it possible to have multiple bootable live images on a disk large enough to hold them all? I have an 8GB disk, and I'd really like it if this one disk could replace a bunch of my installation CD's. I haven't seen any documentation anywhere on how this can be done, and I've also seen a few unanswered forum posts asking this same question. Do you know of any documentation? | 17:47 |
| omegamormegil | Could something like this be achieved by installing GRUB into the MBR and chainloading partitions on the USB drive? | 17:53 |
| superm1 | omegamormegil, i do that with an 8 gig flash drive of mine. i installed grub2 (although grub would probably work too). You won't be able to use usb-creator in it's current form to populate the images however | 17:53 |
| omegamormegil | Right, I understand USB-creator isn't designed to do this. I've created USB images before with instructions from the pendrivelinux site. | 17:55 |
| omegamormegil | (Although, it would be a great feature :) | 17:56 |
| omegamormegil | Good to know that would work. Thanks superm1. | 17:56 |
| CIA-2 | usb-creator: evand * r59 usb-creator/ (5 files in 5 dirs): | 20:05 |
| CIA-2 | usb-creator: * Add support for providing command line ISO images. | 20:05 |
| CIA-2 | usb-creator: * Add support for defaulting the persistence setting in the UI via | 20:05 |
| CIA-2 | usb-creator: command line. | 20:05 |
| CIA-2 | usb-creator: * Default the GUI to start up centered on the screen. | 20:05 |
| evand | ^ superm1 thanks | 20:06 |
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