On 8/1/2014 12:45 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Fri, 2014-08-01 at 12:06 -0700, Thomas C.Gilliard wrote:
Previous post:
"A problem is that the .iso versions offered for download in the
liveusb-creator GUI always seem to lag behind."
So a technical note on this one: luc can actually retrieve an up to date
list of ISOs from the mirror server, but it doesn't do so when you start
it. You have to click the Refresh button next to the image list (which
it initially populates from a hardcoded fallback list inside luc). I
tried to fix this and failed, so I filed a bug instead:
https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/ticket/819
but lmacken obviously hasn't been able to get to it yet.
It did not work for me in M$ 8.1 tried repeatedly to update list. So not
yet fixed.
more testing:
I just tested on Yoga Pro 2 running native resolution and Widows 8.1
OS and the liveusb-creator is postage stamp size on the screen.
Obviously an interface scaling issue; I don't know the details of what
an app has to do in order for Windows to automatically scale it up on
hidpi displays, though.
1-) detect screen resolution and properly display GUI
2-) run in compatability mode (run as administrator)
3-) run as liveusb-creator --reset-mbr by default (this can be done
in linux by editing the icon command)
4-)Fix the Download button on the GUI to work and be up to date.
yeah, these are the kinds of reasons I'm reluctant to promote luc too
strongly.
The Sugar on a Stick spin obviously requires a user friendly way to
create a persistent USB for booting.
This works to make a persistent USB in Fedora [1]
Desktop$ sudo ./tools_livecd-iso-to-disk.sh --reset-mbr --overlay-size-mb 500 --home-size-mb 700 --delete-home --unencrypted-home Fedora-17-Beta-x86_64-Live-SoaS.iso /dev/sdb1
and if --efi is added it should boot on EFI systems (not tested recently)
Desktop$ ./tools_livecd-iso-to-disk.sh --format --efi --overlay-size-mb 300 --home-size-mb 175 --delete-home --unencrypted-home Fedora-17-Beta-x86_64-Live-SoaS.iso /dev/sdb1
[1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Testing/Reports/livecd-iso-to-disk
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