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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Den 2015-08-11 17:36, Nio Wiklund skrev:
> Den 2015-08-10 04:51, Israel skrev:
>>
>> Hi Nio,
>> I just tried it out for a PPC image.
>> AMAZING!!!
>> It looks so good, and now goes to my home folder!!!  You rock!!
>> It works great, it is fast, I cannot tell you enough good about it!  It
>> was flawless!!
>>
>>
>> On 08/06/2015 02:59 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
>>> Den 2015-08-06 04:32, Ali Linx skrev:
>>>>
>>>> On 08/02/2015 01:10 AM, Israel wrote:
>>>>> Hi Nio,
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>> ...
>>>> What a clever suggestion and needless to say, I do agree with the above,
>>>> specially this part:
>>>>
>>>> /Personally I think the WARNING should //*not*//be easy on the eyes.  It
>>>> SHOULD be jarring and make the user think about it... do I really want
>>>> to dd this specific drive? The default should be red.  It is universally
>>>> understood as stop/warning/danger./
>>>>
>>>> As for changing the color, aren't we spoiling our users a lot? :P
>>> ...
>>>
>>> :-D
> 
> Hi Israel,
> 
> As you might have noticed, I have been away from the internet for a
> couple of days. I'm back now, and I have put labels on a few of your
> mails, so that I can get back to them within a week. I think I will be
> back more regularly after the weekend.
> 
> I'm glad you mkusb works for you :-) I guess you have changed the
> command lines for reading and writing the 'colour' file (or what do you
> mean by 'goes to my home folder'?
> 
> By the way, a have a long term project for mkusb: to add a streamlined
> way to create persistent live systems with Ubuntu as well as with ToriOS.
> 
> The basics works now, but there are several things to manage before it
> is ready for phillw.net and the unstable ppa.
> 
> Best regards
> Nio
> 

Hi again Israel and Jack,

The bleeding edge version 'mkusb 10.0.1' can make persistent live
systems for ToriOS and the Ubuntu family of linux. But I would say that
the main purpose of mkusb is still to copy/clone/flash iso files and
other compressed image files (which does not create persistent live
systems).

ToriOS can even boot persistent live in UEFI mode. The only hickup I
have seen is that the mouse does not work in UEFI mode, while it works
when booted in BIOS mode. The built-in touchpad works. I do not get this
hickup with Ubuntu, at least not with newer Ubuntu flavours (14.04 LTS
and newer). It does not mean, that we can or should install ToriOS
(32-bit) in UEFI mode, just a statement: ToriOS non-pae can work in UEFI
mode :-)

A portable pendrive with ToriOS live and persistent live can run in
'everything' from very old computers without PAE to the new computers
with UEFI.

I uploaded this bleeding edge version of mkusb to Phill's server, but
not yet to the unstable ppa. And the wiki page

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb/v9#from_phillw.net

needs updating ... with basic facts as well as making a sub-page for
version 10 and appropriate links.

I updated the installer, so that you can get it rather easily:

-----
Download the shell-script file 'mkusb-installer' directly with

wget http://phillw.net/isos/linux-tools/mkusb/mkusb-installer

and run

bash mkusb-installer
...
[sudo] password:
...
Install via ppa or wget, uninstall or quit? (p/w/u/Q) w
...

- Enter your password (installed systems typically require
  password, but not live systems)

- Enter w (for wget) and the shell-script will download, check
  and install mkusb plus some small iso files for testing.

- Repeat the command bash mkusb-installer if some file was
  not downloaded correctly.
-----

I would be happy if you can try it and give me some feedback :-)

Finally a "developer's tidbit": I found that the zenity --forms window
does not open centered like the other windows, but jumps to a corner or
some space with 'free' background. So I use wmctrl to center it. (I use
zenity --forms to enter the percentage of the free space to use for
persistence. The rest of the free space is used for the first FAT32
partition and can be used for transfer of files to Windows.)

Best regards
Nio