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[JM <meets@xxxxxx>]

Hi,

Here when it fails in Lubuntu Saucy there is a window displaying errors thrown by python
components. Do you get a similar result or does it just freeze or so?

Regards,
Mélodie



On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 09:49:07 +0200
Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> ... and a second short comment:
> 
> Today I needed several attempts including logout/login to manage to use
> usb-creator-gtk in Lubuntu Saucy i386 to create a persistent Lubuntu
> Saucy amd64 pendrive :-(
> 
> But finally I succeeded and the persistent drive works :-)
> 
> Best regards
> Nio
> 
> On 2013-10-15 08:34, Nio Wiklund wrote:
> > Just a short comment:
> > 
> > I tested the usb-creator-gtk in Saucy (yesterday's version) now. I had
> > to use it twice (both times wiping with 'Erase disk') to succeed. The
> > first time it crashed early, the second time it created a good boot
> > drive (from the Lubuntu Saucy 32-bit desktop iso) and then crashed with
> > segmentation fault.
> > 
> > Best regards
> > Nio
> > 
> > On 2013-10-15 06:21, Nio Wiklund wrote:
> >> See these links for making USB boot drives
> >>
> >> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick
> >> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1958073
> >>
> >> And about usb-creator-gtk in Saucy: it is buggy, but this way I succeed
> >> to make *persistent live* drives with usb-creator-gtk in Lubuntu Saucy.
> >>
> >> Let it wipe whatever is on the USB pendrive and then create a partition
> >> and file system: Click on 'Erase disk'!
> >>
> >> Alternatives are to install Kubuntu's version usb-creator-kde or
> >> Unetbootin (as well as resorting to the version 12.04 LTS).
> >>
> >> Best regards
> >> Nio
> >>
> >> On 2013-10-14 22:47, Phill Whiteside wrote:
> >>> The USB installers have been pretty much broken all cycle. Last I heard
> >>> was to use dd. Nothing will now get fixed before release. If people have
> >>> a decent set of instructions using *any* usb installer to use 13.04 to
> >>> install 13.10, please put them onto the wiki; or even in a text file
> >>> with step by step explanation!
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>>
> >>> Phill.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 14 October 2013 21:38, JM <meets@xxxxxx <mailto:meets@xxxxxx>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>     On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 21:04:05 +0200
> >>>     Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>>
> >>>     wrote:
> >>>
> >>>     > On 2013-10-14 01:21, JM wrote:
> >>>     > > Hi,
> >>>     > >
> >>>     > > The test consists in booting to Lubuntu Saucy final (installed
> >>>     on hard drive), and
> >>>     > > consists in installing to USB in order to install from there as
> >>>     if it were an install
> >>>     > > from cdrom.
> >>>     (...)
> >>>     > > It looks like after re-installing USB Creator GTK and starting
> >>>     it from console I have
> >>>     > > finished installing the latest ISO AND bootloader.This time I
> >>>     have had the window with
> >>>     > > the success message in it. However at reboot the bootloader is
> >>>     not found.
> >>>     > >
> >>>     > > Therefore this time I'll do it from within an Ubuntu 12.04.
> >>>     (...)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>     > Hi Mélodie,
> >>>     >
> >>>     > usb-creator-gtk is buggy, but this way I succeed to make persistent
> >>>     > drives with it in Lubuntu Saucy:
> >>>     >
> >>>     > Let it wipe whatever is on the USB pendrive and then create a
> >>>     partition
> >>>     > and file system: Click on 'Erase disk'!
> >>>     >
> >>>     > Alternatives are kubuntu's version usb-creator-kde or unetbootin (as
> >>>     > well as resorting to the version 12.04 LTS).
> >>>     >
> >>>     > Let us know how it works :-)
> >>>     >
> >>>     > Best regards
> >>>     > Nio
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>     Hi Nio,
> >>>
> >>>     It has worked fine in my Ubuntu Openbox 12.04.3 install. The USB
> >>>     Creator GTK works ok,
> >>>     (at least as long as I don't ask it to erase the drive, as far as I
> >>>     remember, and I use
> >>>     Gparted for this task).
> >>>
> >>>     Regards,
> >>>     Mélodie
> 


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JM <meets@xxxxxx>