Wood, Brian J wrote: > Hi All, > > One thing I didn't see on the instructions and I did as a test was to > use 'dd' to write the image to my USB flash drive that had a fat > filesystem that is used with my windows systems. I just used 'dd' as > instructed here: > http://moblin.org/documentation/getting-started-guides/test-drive-moblin/using-moblin-live-image. > Then I inserted the USB stick into my Jax10 MID and found that when > it tried to run it the initrd0 it came up with a bunch of corrupt > squashfs errors and dropped me into a shell prompt.
We've run into a few challenges with USB keys today playing with the images. > I then put an ext3 filesystem on the flash drive using mkfs.ext3 and > then 'dd'ed the iso as instructed to the USB stick and it works fine > on Jax10. I just didn't know if this needed to be added as a caveat > for newbies to Moblin.org who test this out and are coming from a > windows world. :-) One of my collegues was having trouble with a usb drive earlier. They'd formatted in Windows some time ago and then couldn't get that drive to work. I didn't think the contents of the usb drive had anything to do with the 'dd' command as it did a byte-copy and just overwrote the usb contents. > > (P.S. I didn't see anywhere on the instruction page listed above that > the root password for installation is "moblin", does that need to be > mentioned?) Good note. I'll add that. Bob > > Thanks, > > Brian Wood > Intel Corporation > UMG Platform Software Group (UPSG) > [email protected] > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dirk Hohndel >> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 6:53 AM >> To: Tero Saarni >> Cc: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [Moblin Dev] Announcing Moblin v2 Core Alpha Release >> >> On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:24:56 -0700 >> Tero Saarni <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 02:48, Shureih, Tariq >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> The Moblin Distribution team is happy to announce the availability >>>> of the Moblin v2 Core Alpha Release. >>>> >>>> You can read the full release notes at: >>>> >>>> http://moblin.org/community/blogs/tshureih/2009/announcing-moblin-v2-core-al >>>> pha-release >>>> >>>> For Feedback and comments, please email us at [email protected]. >>>> >>> >>> It is mentioned on the web page that the image could be written on >>> USB >>> drive but I can find only moblin-netbook-core-alpha1.iso. I believe >>> ISO 9660 CD image does not boot if simply written on memory stick >>> with >>> dd, is there pre-built bootable filesystem image for USB memory >>> sticks >>> too? >> >> This is a hybrid image that boots both from a USB stick as well as >> when >> burned on a CD. Very useful :-) >> >> /D >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Moblin dev Mailing List >> [email protected] >> >> To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: >> https://lists.moblin.org/mailman/listinfo/dev or your user account >> on http://moblin.org once logged in. >> >> For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: >> http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists > > _______________________________________________ > Moblin dev Mailing List > [email protected] > > To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: > https://lists.moblin.org/mailman/listinfo/dev or your user account on > http://moblin.org once logged in. > > For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: > http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists _______________________________________________ Moblin dev Mailing List [email protected] To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: https://lists.moblin.org/mailman/listinfo/dev or your user account on http://moblin.org once logged in. For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists
