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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello everybody,

I have made mkusb more user friendly, and I think that it is quite
convenient now to make USB pendrives. It is described at this link

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb/v9

This method works well for me, so I want to share it. As shown in the
attached file, mkusb copies / flashes / clones the Lubuntu

utopic-desktop-i386.iso

to a USB 3 pendrive in a USB 2 port in 21 seconds :-)

PPA would be the preferred method to install mkusb for Ubuntu, maybe for
Debian and Linux Mint and other Ubuntu and Debian based distros and
re-spins, but the method described at

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

works also for Knoppix, Mageia, Fedora and openSUSE. To make it
convenient, the installers (corresponding to apt-get) are called and pv,
xterm and zenity installed automatically. The scripts at phillw.net can
also uninstall mkusb; 'money back' if you are not satisfied ;-)

-o-

mkusb is tested (and tweaked to work) in

{Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Xubuntu} {12.04 LTS, 14.04 LTS, 14.10}
         with PPAs for these versions (precise, trusty, utopic)
Bento
Bodhi
Debian Wheezy (and 9w)
Knoppix 7.4 (needed treatment with isohybrid)
Linux Mint
LXLE 12.04.3
LXLE 12.04.4 revisited 32-bits (needed treatment with isohybrid)
Mageia 4.1 Gnome Live and installed (needs a legacy desktop file)
ToriOS alpha

mkusb works with simpler display in 'legacy mode' (without colours and
other html features, where Zenity lacks the --html option) in

Fedora 20 - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1141802

openSUSE 13.1 - https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=896674

Use mkusb 7 alias mkusb-nox or mkusb 8 in distros, where zenity does not
work at all.

mkusb 9 is tested with the following iso files / distros, which can
(only) be installed

Clonezilla
Kolibri (mkusb works but does not identify the distro)
Ubuntu mini 14.04
Webconverger

-o-

1. Please help me decide if mkusb version 9.04 is mature enough to be
copied to the stable PPA :-)

2. When are we ready to abandon mkusb version 8 (used in ToriOS now)?

Best regards
Nio

Den 2014-09-06 14:31, Nio Wiklund skrev:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> mkusb version 9.0 is uploaded to Phill's server and the unstable PPA.
> 
> * Improvements *
> 
> - File selection dialogue only via zenity (when graphical environment).
> 
> - Cosmetic improvements: I try to make the colour scheme as consistent
> as possible given the limitations of zenity. The menu lists have no
> colour, only shades of grey. I use the icon colour in the final
> confirmation windows. The blue colour which is standard in dialog is
> abandoned. The read warning colour is still there, of course :-)
> 
> - Extended help with a separate help menu. There is even a quick link to
> the wiki page. I call the default web browser with the normal user id to
> avoid browsing with superuser id (a security issue).
> 
> -o-
> 
> This version will be described at
> 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb
> 
> and will be possible to download from
> 
> http://phillw.net/isos/linux-tools/mkusb/
> 
> but is also available from our PPA, that was set up by
> Jörn. He taught be how to use it one week ago.
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mkusb/ppa
> 
> will install the stable version mkusb 8.5.4
> --------------------------------------------------
> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mkusb/unstable
> 
> will install mkusb 9.0
> --------------------------------------------------
> 
> This version takes a greater leap: separate versions for
> 
> GUI mode: mkusb
> txt mode: mkusb-nox
> 
> This avoids some complicated logic and makes the code smaller. I
> guess 95% of the users will prefer the GUI version, but the text version
> is good for servers and for users who do not want eye-candy.
> 
> Please test either or both of
> 
> mkusb version 9.0 and mkusb-nox
> 
> 
> Best regards
> Nio
>

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