Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-27 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On 09/27/2016 09:32 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > This is an annoying thread. > > Ranjan, jd1008, Jon LaBadie - consider yourselves lucky the OP did not > experience data loss as a result of obviously bad advice. Even my > house plant recognized what treacherously bad advice it contained. > > The OP

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-27 Thread jd1008
read anything from me where I use words like "hibernate" or "suspend" chances are that I'm talking about bears or inter-galactic travel. My bad - a mis-attribution. Please see below: On 09/26/2016 06:16 AM, jack smith wrote: Don't know if it's related but

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-27 Thread jd1008
On 09/27/2016 07:20 AM, fred roller wrote: On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 11:14 PM, jd1008 > wrote: But Rick, the OP was trying to dd into /dev/sda How can it be that the system boots off of some disk that is not /dev/sda, and /dev/sda is empty? and is a us

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-27 Thread jd1008
Why did you not step up to the plate and provide the OP with your two cent's worth? We did all we could. The OP is a newbie and did not understand the lingo we use to express command arguments. His GUI was not working, so we provided an alternative... Why did you not provide a perfectly working so

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-27 Thread Chris Murphy
This is an annoying thread. Ranjan, jd1008, Jon LaBadie - consider yourselves lucky the OP did not experience data loss as a result of obviously bad advice. Even my house plant recognized what treacherously bad advice it contained. The OP very clearly, without any ambiguity, expressed reluctance

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-27 Thread fred roller
On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 11:14 PM, jd1008 wrote: > But Rick, the OP was trying to dd into /dev/sda > > How can it be that the system boots off of some disk that is not /dev/sda, > and /dev/sda is empty? and is a usb flash??? > > Also, why would the op get a message to the effect "disk is full" > w

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-26 Thread jd1008
On 09/26/2016 01:18 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 09/26/2016 11:27 AM, Kevin Cummings wrote: On 09/25/16 22:15, fred roller wrote: [root@Jehovah Downloads]# dd if=Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-25_Alpha-2.iso of=/dev/sda1 bs=16M dd: error writing '/dev/sda1': No space left on device 32+0 records

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-26 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 02:04:05PM +0200, Martin Bříza wrote: > On Mon, 26 Sep 2016 12:34:58 +0200, Jon Ingason > > > > Just one question regarding "mediawriter" and "liveusb-creator". can > > they coexist or need I to remove "liveusb-creator"

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-26 Thread Rick Stevens
On 09/26/2016 11:27 AM, Kevin Cummings wrote: > On 09/25/16 22:15, fred roller wrote: >> >> [root@Jehovah Downloads]# dd >> if=Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-25_Alpha-2.iso of=/dev/sda1 bs=16M >> dd: error writing '/dev/sda1': No space left on device >> 32+0 records in >> 31+0 records out >> 524288

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-26 Thread Kevin Cummings
On 09/25/16 22:15, fred roller wrote: > > [root@Jehovah Downloads]# dd > if=Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-25_Alpha-2.iso of=/dev/sda1 bs=16M > dd: error writing '/dev/sda1': No space left on device > 32+0 records in > 31+0 records out > 524288000 bytes (524 MB, 500 MiB) copied, 1.26722 s, 414 MB/

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-26 Thread jd1008
On 09/25/2016 08:15 PM, fred roller wrote: [root@Jehovah Downloads]# dd if=Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-25_Alpha-2.iso of=/dev/sda1 bs=16M dd: error writing '/dev/sda1': No space left on device 32+0 records in 31+0 records out 524288000 bytes (524 MB, 500 MiB) copied, 1.26722 s, 414 MB/s

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-26 Thread jack smith
Don't know if it's related but there is a bug in Qt with the Nvidia drivers that break liveusb-creator. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1356677 ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email t

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-26 Thread Martin Bříza
On Mon, 26 Sep 2016 12:34:58 +0200, Jon Ingason wrote: Den 2016-09-26 kl. 11:47, skrev Martin Bříza: On Mon, 26 Sep 2016 11:42:45 +0200, Martin Bříza wrote: Please also note that the "liveusb-creator" package will get deprecated in favor of "mediawriter" that looks v

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-26 Thread Jon Ingason
Den 2016-09-26 kl. 11:47, skrev Martin Bříza: > On Mon, 26 Sep 2016 11:42:45 +0200, Martin Bříza wrote: > >> >> Please also note that the "liveusb-creator" package will get >> deprecated in favor of "mediawriter" that looks virtually the same as >&

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-26 Thread Martin Bříza
On Mon, 26 Sep 2016 11:42:45 +0200, Martin Bříza wrote: On Sun, 25 Sep 2016 16:31:44 +0200, Ed Greshko wrote: On 09/25/16 20:58, Lawrence E Graves wrote: Is anyone else having trouble with liveusb-creator gui. It downloads ok but it will not show up afterwards. Help will be greatly

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-26 Thread Martin Bříza
On Sun, 25 Sep 2016 16:31:44 +0200, Ed Greshko wrote: On 09/25/16 20:58, Lawrence E Graves wrote: Is anyone else having trouble with liveusb-creator gui. It downloads ok but it will not show up afterwards. Help will be greatly appreciated. Haven't used it recently But starti

RE: liveusb-creator

2016-09-26 Thread Lawrrence Graves
Thank you very much. It works. Have a blessed day From: Javier Perez [mailto:pepeb...@gmail.com] Sent: September 25, 2016 10:15 PM To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Re: liveusb-creator Hi Lawrence. I had the same problem. My personal solution is based on this

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-26 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/26/16 12:15, Javier Perez wrote: > you have to add the line > "from OpenGL import GL" > > It will look like > > import os > import sys > from OpenGL import GL > from liveusb import _ > > Save it and use as normal. > It works well for me, I have been able to use livesusb-creator several time

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-25 Thread Javier Perez
Hi Lawrence. I had the same problem. My personal solution is based on this discussion from th PYQT mailing list https://riverbankcomputing.com/pipermail/pyqt/2014-January/033681.html Basically, you have to add a line to the file /usr/bin/liveusb-creator It is in /usr/bin, therefore you will

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-25 Thread fred roller
[root@Jehovah Downloads]# dd if=Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-25_Alpha-2.iso of=/dev/sda1 bs=16M dd: error writing '/dev/sda1': No space left on device 32+0 records in 31+0 records out 524288000 bytes (524 MB, 500 MiB) copied, 1.26722 s, 414 MB/s Lawrence, for installing based on the information

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-25 Thread stan
On Sun, 25 Sep 2016 10:06:01 -0600 Lawrence E Graves wrote: > On 09/25/2016 09:57 AM, stan wrote: > > The program liveusb-creator is a python script. The python package > > that provides the shader functionality is python2-pyopengl. You > > could try installing tha

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-25 Thread Ed Greshko
ogram is not >>>> linked >>>> QOpenGLShaderProgram::uniformLocation( pixelSize ): shader program is not >>>> linked >>>> Segmentation fault (core dumped) >>>> >>>> This on a fully updated F24 system. >>>> >>&

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-25 Thread Lawrence E Graves
On 09/25/2016 04:23 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 02:59:59PM -0600, Lawrence E Graves wrote: Unless I did something wrong, that didn't work either. This the results: [root@Jehovah ~]# dd if= of=/dev/sd?? bs=16M -bash: full-path-name-fedora25-iso: No such file or directory

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-25 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 02:59:59PM -0600, Lawrence E Graves wrote: > > Unless I did something wrong, that didn't work either. This the results: > > [root@Jehovah ~]# dd if= of=/dev/sd?? bs=16M > -bash: full-path-name-fedora25-iso: No such file or directory > Lawrence, this has nothing to do wit

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-25 Thread Lawrence E Graves
Yes. On 09/25/2016 03:56 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 09/25/16 22:45, Lawrence E Graves wrote: On 09/25/2016 08:31 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 09/25/16 20:58, Lawrence E Graves wrote: Is anyone else having trouble with liveusb-creator gui. It downloads ok but it will not show up afterwards. Help

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-25 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/25/16 22:45, Lawrence E Graves wrote: > > > On 09/25/2016 08:31 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> >> On 09/25/16 20:58, Lawrence E Graves wrote: >>> Is anyone else having trouble with liveusb-creator gui. It downloads ok >>> but it will not show up after

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-25 Thread Lawrence E Graves
just told me. Hope it makes sense to you. [root@Jehovah ~]# /usr/bin/liveusb-creator file:///usr/lib64/qt5/qml/QtQuick/Controls/ComboBox.qml:560:5: QML Menu: Binding loop detected for property "__selectedIndex" QOpenGLShaderProgram: could not create shader program QOpenGLShader: could

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-25 Thread jd1008
. [root@Jehovah ~]# /usr/bin/liveusb-creator file:///usr/lib64/qt5/qml/QtQuick/Controls/ComboBox.qml:560:5: QML Menu: Binding loop detected for property "__selectedIndex" QOpenGLShaderProgram: could not create shader program QOpenGLShader: could not create shader QOpenGLShader: could

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-25 Thread Lawrence E Graves
:01 PM, jd1008 wrote: On 09/25/2016 12:50 PM, Lawrence E Graves wrote: On 09/25/2016 12:45 PM, Ahmad Samir wrote: On 25 September 2016 at 18:06, Lawrence E Graves wrote: This the results of what you just told me. Hope it makes sense to you. [root@Jehovah ~]# /usr/bin/liveusb-creator file

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-25 Thread jd1008
On 09/25/2016 02:18 PM, Lawrence E Graves wrote: On 09/25/2016 01:53 PM, jd1008 wrote: What version of fedora are you using? Fedora 24 I just emailed you to use the dd command. Let us all know how it went. ___ users mailing list -- user

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-25 Thread jd1008
:50 PM, Lawrence E Graves wrote: On 09/25/2016 12:45 PM, Ahmad Samir wrote: On 25 September 2016 at 18:06, Lawrence E Graves wrote: This the results of what you just told me. Hope it makes sense to you. [root@Jehovah ~]# /usr/bin/liveusb-creator file:///usr/lib64/qt5/qml/QtQuick/Controls

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-25 Thread Lawrence E Graves
:45 PM, Ahmad Samir wrote: On 25 September 2016 at 18:06, Lawrence E Graves wrote: This the results of what you just told me. Hope it makes sense to you. [root@Jehovah ~]# /usr/bin/liveusb-creator file:///usr/lib64/qt5/qml/QtQuick/Controls/ComboBox.qml:560:5: QML Menu: Binding loop detected

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-25 Thread Lawrence E Graves
:45 PM, Ahmad Samir wrote: On 25 September 2016 at 18:06, Lawrence E Graves wrote: This the results of what you just told me. Hope it makes sense to you. [root@Jehovah ~]# /usr/bin/liveusb-creator file:///usr/lib64/qt5/qml/QtQuick/Controls/ComboBox.qml:560:5: QML Menu: Binding loop detected

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-25 Thread jd1008
2016 at 18:06, Lawrence E Graves wrote: This the results of what you just told me. Hope it makes sense to you. [root@Jehovah ~]# /usr/bin/liveusb-creator file:///usr/lib64/qt5/qml/QtQuick/Controls/ComboBox.qml:560:5: QML Menu: Binding loop detected for property "__selected

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-25 Thread jd1008
2016 at 18:06, Lawrence E Graves wrote: This the results of what you just told me. Hope it makes sense to you. [root@Jehovah ~]# /usr/bin/liveusb-creator file:///usr/lib64/qt5/qml/QtQuick/Controls/ComboBox.qml:560:5: QML Menu: Binding loop detected for property "__selected

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-25 Thread Lawrence E Graves
results of what you just told me. Hope it makes sense to you. [root@Jehovah ~]# /usr/bin/liveusb-creator file:///usr/lib64/qt5/qml/QtQuick/Controls/ComboBox.qml:560:5: QML Menu: Binding loop detected for property "__selectedIndex" QOpenGLShaderProgram: could not create shad

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-25 Thread jd1008
makes sense to you. [root@Jehovah ~]# /usr/bin/liveusb-creator file:///usr/lib64/qt5/qml/QtQuick/Controls/ComboBox.qml:560:5: QML Menu: Binding loop detected for property "__selectedIndex" QOpenGLShaderProgram: could not create shader program QOpenGLShader: could not cre

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-25 Thread Lawrence E Graves
/liveusb-creator file:///usr/lib64/qt5/qml/QtQuick/Controls/ComboBox.qml:560:5: QML Menu: Binding loop detected for property "__selectedIndex" QOpenGLShaderProgram: could not create shader program QOpenGLShader: could not create shader QOpenGLShader: could not create shader shader compilat

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-25 Thread jd1008
On 09/25/2016 12:50 PM, Lawrence E Graves wrote: On 09/25/2016 12:45 PM, Ahmad Samir wrote: On 25 September 2016 at 18:06, Lawrence E Graves wrote: This the results of what you just told me. Hope it makes sense to you. [root@Jehovah ~]# /usr/bin/liveusb-creator file:///usr/lib64/qt5/qml

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-25 Thread Lawrence E Graves
On 09/25/2016 12:45 PM, Ahmad Samir wrote: On 25 September 2016 at 18:06, Lawrence E Graves wrote: This the results of what you just told me. Hope it makes sense to you. [root@Jehovah ~]# /usr/bin/liveusb-creator file:///usr/lib64/qt5/qml/QtQuick/Controls/ComboBox.qml:560:5: QML Menu

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-25 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 25 September 2016 at 18:06, Lawrence E Graves wrote: > > This the results of what you just told me. Hope it makes sense to you. > > [root@Jehovah ~]# /usr/bin/liveusb-creator > file:///usr/lib64/qt5/qml/QtQuick/Controls/ComboBox.qml:560:5: QML Menu: > Binding loop det

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-25 Thread Lawrence E Graves
On 09/25/2016 10:42 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 09/25/2016 07:15 AM, Lawrence E Graves wrote: No. I trying to use my liveusb-creator to make a bootable usb drive. The liveusb-creator will flash on desktop and then dissapear. I am trying to solve that problem. In that case, try running it from a

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-25 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/25/2016 07:15 AM, Lawrence E Graves wrote: No. I trying to use my liveusb-creator to make a bootable usb drive. The liveusb-creator will flash on desktop and then dissapear. I am trying to solve that problem. In that case, try running it from a terminal to see what errors it's repo

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-25 Thread Lawrence E Graves
On 09/25/2016 09:57 AM, stan wrote: On Sun, 25 Sep 2016 08:45:21 -0600 Lawrence E Graves wrote: Now that you have showed me this, what is my next move. I am not as tech savvy as you are therefore I need to know exactly what is need to make my liveusb-creator appear on my desktop to be used

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-25 Thread stan
On Sun, 25 Sep 2016 08:45:21 -0600 Lawrence E Graves wrote: > Now that you have showed me this, what is my next move. I am not as > tech savvy as you are therefore I need to know exactly what is need > to make my liveusb-creator appear on my desktop to be used. Thank you. You might b

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-25 Thread Ranjan Maitra
gt;>> On Sun, 25 Sep 2016 06:58:33 -0600 Lawrence E Graves > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>>> Is anyone else having trouble with liveusb-creator gui. It downloads ok > >>>> but it will not show up afterwards. Help will be greatly appreciated. > &

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-25 Thread Lawrence E Graves
On 09/25/2016 09:07 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Sun, 25 Sep 2016 08:15:38 -0600 Lawrence E Graves wrote: On 09/25/2016 08:10 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Sun, 25 Sep 2016 06:58:33 -0600 Lawrence E Graves wrote: Is anyone else having trouble with liveusb-creator gui. It downloads ok

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-25 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sun, 25 Sep 2016 08:15:38 -0600 Lawrence E Graves wrote: > > > On 09/25/2016 08:10 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > On Sun, 25 Sep 2016 06:58:33 -0600 Lawrence E Graves > > wrote: > > > >> Is anyone else having trouble with liveusb-creator gui. It downl

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-25 Thread Lawrence E Graves
On 09/25/2016 08:31 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 09/25/16 20:58, Lawrence E Graves wrote: Is anyone else having trouble with liveusb-creator gui. It downloads ok but it will not show up afterwards. Help will be greatly appreciated. Haven't used it recently But starting it from the co

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-25 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/25/16 20:58, Lawrence E Graves wrote: > Is anyone else having trouble with liveusb-creator gui. It downloads ok > but it will not show up afterwards. Help will be greatly appreciated. Haven't used it recently But starting it from the command line produces some output fo

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-25 Thread Lawrence E Graves
On 09/25/2016 08:10 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: On Sun, 25 Sep 2016 06:58:33 -0600 Lawrence E Graves wrote: Is anyone else having trouble with liveusb-creator gui. It downloads ok but it will not show up afterwards. Help will be greatly appreciated. I assume that you want to make a bootable

Re: liveusb-creator

2016-09-25 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sun, 25 Sep 2016 06:58:33 -0600 Lawrence E Graves wrote: > Is anyone else having trouble with liveusb-creator gui. It downloads ok > but it will not show up afterwards. Help will be greatly appreciated. > I assume that you want to make a bootable livecd iso? If not, then ignore

liveusb-creator

2016-09-25 Thread Lawrence E Graves
Is anyone else having trouble with liveusb-creator gui. It downloads ok but it will not show up afterwards. Help will be greatly appreciated. -- All things are workable but don't all things work. Prov. 3:5 & 6 ___ users mailing list

Re: LiveUSB-Creator -

2016-06-26 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 06/26/16 04:50, Fernando Cassia wrote: Yes, that looks like it works in an F-24/VM. It did not occur to me that >"Custom OS" would get me back to a familiar process. > Surely a bug of the user, not the software. Surely the UX designers thought it was all very intuitive, and that anyone could

Re: LiveUSB-Creator -

2016-06-26 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 6/26/16, Bob Goodwin wrote: > Yes, that looks like it works in an F-24/VM. It did not occur to me that > "Custom OS" would get me back to a familiar process. > Surely a bug of the user, not the software. Surely the UX designers thought it was all very intuitive, and that anyone could detect t

Re: LiveUSB-Creator -

2016-06-26 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 06/26/16 04:04, Porfirio Andrés Páiz Carrasco wrote: It appears that LiveUSB-creator [aka Fedora Media Writer] no longer >writes to a usb flash stick from data saved to my Fedora23 hard drive >but insists on downloading a copy itself? Or am I missing something? > First open the ap

Re: LiveUSB-Creator -

2016-06-26 Thread Porfirio Andrés Páiz Carrasco
> It appears that LiveUSB-creator [aka Fedora Media Writer] no longer > writes to a usb flash stick from data saved to my Fedora23 hard drive > but insists on downloading a copy itself? Or am I missing something? > First open the app as root. Then click on the "Custom

Re: LiveUSB-Creator -

2016-06-26 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 06/26/16 01:36, Chris Murphy wrote: I forget the option but there is one to choose a file. Maybe it's custom? Or other? Chris Murphy + Whatever the option, I can't find it. I eventually gave up and burned another dvd. The display is a low contrast horror for me nearly unreadable, conta

Re: LiveUSB-Creator -

2016-06-25 Thread Chris Murphy
I forget the option but there is one to choose a file. Maybe it's custom? Or other? Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: htt

LiveUSB-Creator -

2016-06-22 Thread Bob Goodwin
It appears that LiveUSB-creator [aka Fedora Media Writer] no longer writes to a usb flash stick from data saved to my Fedora23 hard drive but insists on downloading a copy itself? Or am I missing something? Bob -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD box10 FEDORA-23

Re: liveusb-creator gone?

2016-05-04 Thread Tim
Martin Bříza: >> So if you guys agree "reformatting" would be a better choice, I'll >> go ahead and change the text. Matthew Miller: > I guess my inclination would be to just drop this feature entirely. If > people want to reformat the drive, they can use whatever regular OS > feature to do it. Th

Re: liveusb-creator gone?

2016-05-03 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2016-05-03 at 16:29 +0300, Egor Zaharov wrote: > On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 1:34 AM, Doug H. om> wrote: > > > > I am happy to adhere to group standards but note that you did not > > give > > anything to quantify "too long".  I did consider the size of the > > text > > pasted and figured it w

Re: liveusb-creator gone?

2016-05-03 Thread Egor Zaharov
On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 1:34 AM, Doug H. wrote: > I am happy to adhere to group standards but note that you did not give > anything to quantify "too long". I did consider the size of the text > pasted and figured it was well within "too" anything. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guid

Re: liveusb-creator gone?

2016-05-03 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 01:05:38PM +0200, Martin Bříza wrote: > Over all, I think this functionality is a necessary part of the tool > which won't make a regular user feel punished for sacrificing a > flash drive for trying Fedora. Thanks for the explanation. That seems fair enough. -- Matthew M

Re: liveusb-creator gone?

2016-05-03 Thread Martin Bříza
On Mon, 02 May 2016 17:05:52 +0200, Matthew Miller wrote: On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 11:36:24AM +0200, Martin Bříza wrote: I chose "factory settings" because usually when you get a new flash drive, it's FAT formatted. While this is a big simplification, I thought it would be a good one for a us

Re: liveusb-creator gone?

2016-05-02 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 4:59 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 9:05 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: >> On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 11:36:24AM +0200, Martin Bříza wrote: >>> I chose "factory settings" because usually when you get a new flash >>> drive, it's FAT formatted. While this is a big s

Re: liveusb-creator gone?

2016-05-02 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 9:05 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 11:36:24AM +0200, Martin Bříza wrote: >> I chose "factory settings" because usually when you get a new flash >> drive, it's FAT formatted. While this is a big simplification, I >> thought it would be a good one for a u

Re: liveusb-creator gone?

2016-05-02 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 11:36:24AM +0200, Martin Bříza wrote: > I chose "factory settings" because usually when you get a new flash > drive, it's FAT formatted. While this is a big simplification, I > thought it would be a good one for a user who is not very technically > savvy - because that's the

Re: liveusb-creator gone?

2016-05-02 Thread Martin Bříza
please hit me with any > > issue or > > suggestion you have, > Since you asked... > > This thread prodded me into opening liveusb-creator, or trying > to. I > had used it within the last few weeks to create a bootable SD card > so I > know it was working then. > >

Re: liveusb-creator gone?

2016-05-02 Thread Martin Bříza
On Sat, 30 Apr 2016 18:37:21 +0200, Tim wrote: On Sat, 2016-04-30 at 10:11 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: It does seem like there might be a better term than "factory settings". We used to call that reformatting... If you want to avoid calling it that, I don't know what a better term will b

Re: liveusb-creator gone?

2016-04-30 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2016-04-30 at 10:11 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > It does seem like there might be a better term than "factory > settings". We used to call that reformatting... If you want to avoid calling it that, I don't know what a better term will be. Reseting? Erasing. It's not just being pedant

Re: liveusb-creator gone?

2016-04-30 Thread Doug H.
> > > issue or > > > suggestion you have, > > Since you asked... > > > > This thread prodded me into opening liveusb-creator, or trying > > to.  I > > had used it within the last few weeks to create a bootable SD card > > so I > > know it

Re: liveusb-creator gone?

2016-04-30 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 07:17:57PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > > How does it know what the factory settings were? I get the impression it > > just creates a vfat file system on the device using all of the available > > space. > Factory settings means it will wipe all the isohybrid and bootloader >

Re: liveusb-creator gone?

2016-04-29 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 3:10 PM, Doug H. wrote: > On Fri, 2016-04-29 at 10:20 +0200, Martin Bříza wrote: >> I'm the guy responsible for the rewrite so please hit me with any >> issue or >> suggestion you have, > > Since you asked... > > This thread prodd

Re: liveusb-creator gone?

2016-04-29 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 10:20:13 +0200, > Martin Bříza wrote: >> >> >> Yes, it was rewritten. Now it uses only dd to write to a flash drive and >> it indeed is capable of restoring a flash drive containing Fedora to its >> factory settin

Re: liveusb-creator gone?

2016-04-29 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 4:26 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Has liveusb-creator been replaced by Fedora Media Writer? Yes, it's undergoing a rewrite so there may be some confusion and bugs in 3.93.3 still. > I'm having difficulty installing Knoppix on a stick with the latter, >

Re: liveusb-creator gone?

2016-04-29 Thread Doug H.
On Sat, 2016-04-30 at 01:09 +0300, Egor Zaharov wrote: > Don't do like this again. If error log is too long, paste it to > pastebin services, > and provide a link to it. Seriously? A 29K e-mail (20K of body text) is too long in this millennium? I am happy to adhere to group standards but note t

Re: liveusb-creator gone?

2016-04-29 Thread Egor Zaharov
On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 12:10 AM, Doug H. wrote: > > On Fri, 2016-04-29 at 10:20 +0200, Martin Bříza wrote: > > I'm the guy responsible for the rewrite so please hit me with any > > issue or > > suggestion you have, > > Since you asked... > > This threa

Re: liveusb-creator gone?

2016-04-29 Thread Doug H.
On Fri, 2016-04-29 at 10:20 +0200, Martin Bříza wrote: > I'm the guy responsible for the rewrite so please hit me with any > issue or   > suggestion you have, Since you asked... This thread prodded me into opening liveusb-creator, or trying to.  I had used it within the last few w

Re: liveusb-creator gone?

2016-04-29 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 12:01:45 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: On 04/29/2016 11:40 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: How does it know what the factory settings were? I get the impression it just creates a vfat file system on the device using all of the available space. Isn't that what the factory settings

Re: liveusb-creator gone?

2016-04-29 Thread Joe Zeff
On 04/29/2016 11:40 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: How does it know what the factory settings were? I get the impression it just creates a vfat file system on the device using all of the available space. Isn't that what the factory settings are? When was the last time that you checked a new flash

Re: liveusb-creator gone?

2016-04-29 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 10:20:13 +0200, Martin Bříza wrote: Yes, it was rewritten. Now it uses only dd to write to a flash drive and it indeed is capable of restoring a flash drive containing Fedora to its factory settings. How does it know what the factory settings were? I get the impress

Re: liveusb-creator gone?

2016-04-29 Thread Martin Bříza
On Fri, 29 Apr 2016 10:13:56 +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote: Ed Greshko wrote: Has liveusb-creator been replaced by Fedora Media Writer? Not sure I understand your query [egreshko@meimei ~]$ dnf whatprovides /usr/bin/liveusb-creator Last metadata expiration check: 1 day, 19:40:46 ago

Re: liveusb-creator gone?

2016-04-29 Thread Timothy Murphy
Ed Greshko wrote: >> Has liveusb-creator been replaced by Fedora Media Writer? > Not sure I understand your query > > [egreshko@meimei ~]$ dnf whatprovides /usr/bin/liveusb-creator > Last metadata expiration check: 1 day, 19:40:46 ago on Wed Apr 27 11:11:05 > 2016. liv

Re: liveusb-creator gone?

2016-04-28 Thread jd1008
On 04/28/2016 04:26 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: Has liveusb-creator been replaced by Fedora Media Writer? I'm having difficulty installing Knoppix on a stick with the latter, although I had no problem installing an older version of Knoppix on the same USB stick with liveusb-creator some tim

Re: liveusb-creator gone?

2016-04-28 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/29/16 06:26, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Has liveusb-creator been replaced by Fedora Media Writer? > I'm having difficulty installing Knoppix on a stick with the latter, > although I had no problem installing an older version of Knoppix > on the same USB stick with liveusb-crea

liveusb-creator gone?

2016-04-28 Thread Timothy Murphy
Has liveusb-creator been replaced by Fedora Media Writer? I'm having difficulty installing Knoppix on a stick with the latter, although I had no problem installing an older version of Knoppix on the same USB stick with liveusb-creator some time ago. The copy now completes without error, bu

Re: "liveusb-creator" versus "livecd-iso-to-disk"?

2014-01-14 Thread g
hi rday, On 01/14/2014 06:06 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: <> except that it's not a college course, it's a *professional* linux admin course as i make a living teaching linux and kernel programming and device drivers and stuff like that to corporations, so threatening to fail paying customers i

Re: "liveusb-creator" versus "livecd-iso-to-disk"?

2014-01-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 14 Jan 2014, Tim wrote: > jdow: > >> If students are involved I'd be inclined to find a fairly ironclad > >> method of preventing access to the Windows disks. Otherwise, students > >> being students, they will start unauthorized prying around on the > >> attached Windows install and potent

Re: "liveusb-creator" versus "livecd-iso-to-disk"?

2014-01-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014, g wrote: > > to all who have replied. > > On 01/13/2014 11:52 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > <> > > just what makes you think that with all the students that will be > using the laptops, that there will not be one or two, or more, > that have experience with linux. > > all the

Re: "liveusb-creator" versus "livecd-iso-to-disk"?

2014-01-13 Thread g
to all who have replied. On 01/13/2014 11:52 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: <> just what makes you think that with all the students that will be using the laptops, that there will not be one or two, or more, that have experience with linux. all the 'this and that' to protect the laptops would be

Re: "liveusb-creator" versus "livecd-iso-to-disk"?

2014-01-13 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/13/2014 02:27 PM, Tim wrote: I'd be inclined to*not* mount the Windows partitions, and prevent auto mounting, unless they actually required access to them. In that case, list it in /etc/fstab with noauto. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscr

Re: "liveusb-creator" versus "livecd-iso-to-disk"?

2014-01-13 Thread Tim
jdow: >> If students are involved I'd be inclined to find a fairly ironclad >> method of preventing access to the Windows disks. Otherwise, students >> being students, they will start unauthorized prying around on the >> attached Windows install and potentially corrupt it badly. Joe Zeff: > Indeed

Re: "liveusb-creator" versus "livecd-iso-to-disk"?

2014-01-13 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/13/2014 01:16 PM, jdow wrote: If students are involved I'd be inclined to find a fairly ironclad method of preventing access to the Windows disks. Otherwise, students being students, they will start unauthorized prying around on the attached Windows install and potentially corrupt it badly

Re: "liveusb-creator" versus "livecd-iso-to-disk"?

2014-01-13 Thread jdow
s to their system -- not a lot, basic configuration, that sort of thing. so, does liveusb-creator handle that? if so, i'll go with that. rday I've never had a lot of luck getting liveusb-creator to build good bootable CentOS images. Especially in Windows. That's why I use LiLI.

Re: "liveusb-creator" versus "livecd-iso-to-disk"?

2014-01-13 Thread Fred Smith
do *some* > persistent mods to their system -- not a lot, basic configuration, > that sort of thing. > > so, does liveusb-creator handle that? if so, i'll go with that. Robert: I've been able to use one or the other of those tools to create a live system with "persistence&quo

Re: "liveusb-creator" versus "livecd-iso-to-disk"?

2014-01-13 Thread Mark Haney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 1/13/2014 2:15 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > my preference, though, is to use a linux-based tool if one is > adequate. > Mine is as well. However, getting liveusb-creator to give me good CentOS bootable flash drives has been sp

Re: "liveusb-creator" versus "livecd-iso-to-disk"?

2014-01-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
fiable) linux system, booting totally from USB drive. in my > > case, it needs to be centos 6.5, and it needs to allow students to > > do *some* persistent mods to their system -- not a lot, basic > > configuration, that sort of thing. > > > > so, does liveusb-creato

Re: "liveusb-creator" versus "livecd-iso-to-disk"?

2014-01-13 Thread Mark Haney
needs to allow students to > do *some* persistent mods to their system -- not a lot, basic > configuration, that sort of thing. > > so, does liveusb-creator handle that? if so, i'll go with that. > > rday > I've never had a lot of luck getting liveusb-creator to build g

Re: "liveusb-creator" versus "livecd-iso-to-disk"?

2014-01-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
, what i'm after is a full, bootable (and modifiable) linux system, booting totally from USB drive. in my case, it needs to be centos 6.5, and it needs to allow students to do *some* persistent mods to their system -- not a lot, basic configuration, that sort of thing. so, does liveusb-creator h

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