mkusb PPAs for vivid (Phill Whiteside)
Phill Whiteside
PhillW at PhillW.net
Mon Nov 17 13:04:11 UTC 2014
I take it that this is an attempt to blow my brain up? :P
In the words of Jon Luc Piccard.... "make it so"... aka, get it done :)
Kindest Regards,
Phill.
On 17 November 2014 12:57, Andre Rodovalho <andre.rodovalho at gmail.com>
wrote:
> 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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>> >>
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