mkusb PPAs for vivid (Phill Whiteside)

Mon Nov 17 12:57:17 UTC 2014

Thankyou...

2014-11-17 10:52 GMT+00:00 Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund at gmail.com>:

> Hi again,
>
> *More about gnome-disks*
>
> I have checked after wiping the first megabyte with mkusb and
> reinstalling into the USB pendrive. Tiny Core is still booting, so a
> bootloader was written.
>
> Maybe, when the img extension is [automatically] selected, 'Disks' does
> not write any bootloader into the image, while it does make a complete
> bootable image, when the iso extension is [automatically] selected.
>
> I read the manual
>
> man gnome-disks
>
> but it is very brief, four options (including help). At least in Lubuntu
> Vivid, nothing happens when I select help from the menu, so it is not
> straight-forward to get detailed information, but I found this link
> explaining the objectives
>
> https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/Apps/Disks
>
> It seems to be in an active development phase.
>
> Best regards
> Nio
>
> Den 2014-11-17 07:19, Nio Wiklund skrev:
> > Hi Andre,
> > [Replying inline]
> > Best regards
> > Nio
> >
> > Den 2014-11-16 20:02, Andre Rodovalho skrev:
> >> I can't get boot when I restore a drive. Maybe because my root dir is
> >> not /dev/sda1. My first partition is a swap...
> >>
> >> Or maybe you can get a boot drive because grub was already installed on
> >> your MBR, and you restored the image on a bootable drive...
> >
> > I'll check what happens after wiping the first megabyte with mkusb.
> >
> >> I do store the image as .img (default), how you got a .iso file?
> >
> > 'Disks' created an iso file extension by default. Maybe it recognized
> > the ISO9660 file system. I think it was when using Lubuntu Vivid.
> >
> >> The uncompressed result is not good, this is why I do not use to make
> >> image of /home partition. It is ok for me to store 12gb img files on my
> >> external drive, but not the /home... I do like to make /home separate,
> >> that is why I don't use OBI for this, specifically...
> >
> > Would it be worthwhile to make the OBI recognize and manage a home
> > partition (to check in /etc/fstab and take action when there is a home
> > partition)?
> >
> >> I remember I tried to compress the generated .img file, and then restore
> >> it using a command line pipe. But I had no luck, maybe I needed to know
> >> some more specific parameters to get that done...
> >
> > Or would it be more useful to make a script that wraps dd into something
> > safer and more user friendly? Or consider using rsync or fsarchiver?
> >
> >> I can do exactly what I do with DD, and get a .gz file. But as you said,
> >> sometimes you can mess things up with DiskDestroyer...
> >
> > I think you have found a method that works well for your purpose :-)
> >
> >> 2014-11-16 13:35 GMT-02:00 Israel <israeldahl at gmail.com
> >> <mailto:israeldahl at gmail.com>>:
> >>
> >>     On 11/16/2014 08:53 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
> >>     > Hi again,i
> >>     >
> >>     > I've tried 'Disks' alias gnome-disks in Lubuntu 14.04.1 and Vivid.
> >>     >
> >>     > I could make it create an iso file from a partition, but not from
> the
> >>     > whole drive. Trying from the whole drive gave me an error both
> running
> >>     > as a regular user and with sudo. (I tested with a Tiny Core iso
> file,
> >>     > which is small so it was fast.)
> >>     >
> >>     > When I restored from the image of the partition I got a working
> boot
> >>     > drive. (I cloned the Ubuntu mini.iso in between so that the
> pendrive was
> >>     > changed.) I think this is not logical (and not corresponding to
> how dd
> >>     > is used). Restoring a partition should not restore the whole
> drive, but
> >>     > I guess it is intended to work this way.
> >>     >
> >>     > I could make it flash, clone alias 'restore' a boot USB drive from
> >>     > another iso file (I tested with the Ubuntu mini.iso (because it
> is small
> >>     > so it was fast).
> >>     >
> >>     > -o-
> >>     >
> >>     > Conclusion: I'm glad that I learned about this feature of
> 'Disks'. It is
> >>     > certainly possible to use in order to make a USB boot drive.
> There is an
> >>     > extra 'final warning window', so it should be safe enough to use.
> And
> >>     > best of all, it offers a working solution, when the Startup Disk
> Creator
> >>     > suffers from a really bad bug (# 1325801) plus several minor bugs.
> >>     >
> >>     > -o-
> >>     >
> >>     > But of course, I still think that my mkusb is better ;-)
> >>
> >>     +1
> >>     :)
> >>     > One important extra feature of mkusb is the ability to use general
> >>     > compressed image files (an iso file often contains the compressed
> >>     > container squashfs, but is not itself compressed). Another extra
> feature
> >>     > of mkusb is the ability to check if the content of the iso file
> matches
> >>     > that of the pendrive, and suggest updating for iso-testing. And
> there
> >>     > are several informative windows including a final warning with red
> >>     > background.
> >>     >
> >>     > Best regards
> >>     > Nio
> >>     >
> >>     >
> >>
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