People,
On 2014-08-02 05:06, Thomas C.Gilliard wrote:
What about offering liveusb-creator at the first place instead of
ISO?
Actually, this might be a great idea. Not "instead", but if we
provided two buttons instead of one:
[Download DVD image] [Download USB installer]
people would immediately saw the difference. If they were after USB
installation media, they wouldn't download a DVD image and then
wonder what to do with it (as they do now), no, they would
immediately click the second button. Our USB installer is already
capable of both reusing an existing image and downloading a fresh
one, so this goes well hand in hand. And the page serving you the
file could be tailored to the particular method, so DVD download
would show you basic DVD burning instructions, while USB installer
download would show you basic USB conversion instructions.
Mairin, I guess you're the best person to talk about fp.o design,
what do you think? (Please read the start of this thread). Thanks.
Resent after being rejected by list as not suscribed
-since corrected
Previous post:
"A problem is that the .iso versions offered for download in the
liveusb-creator GUI always seem to lag behind."
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.
It needs to be run in compatability mode as an administrator to work.
Most of the functions appear to work but using the update button I
got Soas f17 x86_64 and did not download in the 25 minutes I
tested it. I tested on a second USB that was written previously with
fedora live with dd. It was not writable. the terminal command
liveusb-creator --reset-mbr did not run in Windows terminal.(It
worked in linux gparted with create new partition table and format
fat32 label LIVE boot flag.) I could then use the windows 8.1
liveusb-creator to write an existing soas.iso downloaded earlier in
windows firefox.
In short there are a number of things that need to fixed in the
windows version of liveusb.creator before offering it on the fedora
download options.
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.
If we are not talking about trying to be compatible with a third party
script / app, why don't we just produce a script / batch file that
downloads the ISO and uses a bundled dd to put it on the USB?
Regards,
Phil.
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