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hjt4vdr
June 6th, 2008, 10:26 PM
hi,

i created a sidux liveusb-creator fork which also works with ubuntu,
based on the very good work from Luke Macken, Kushal Das (Red Hat/Fedora)
Luke and Kushal thank you very much!
https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator

You can install both iso's, ubuntu and sidux, if you have a pen >= 2GB, but if you will do this, the first iso must be ubuntu, the second sidux.

read more here:
http://sidux.com/PNphpBB2-viewtopic-t-10929.html

http://maledivenhilfe.com/liveusb-creator/screenshot/create%20new.jpg

Have fun!
Horst

fatality_uk
June 7th, 2008, 12:09 AM
If I had a machine running Windows in the house, or at work, might be useful :D

JT9161
June 7th, 2008, 02:53 AM
*Looks at the Live USB drive that I made a couple hours ago using Pen Drive Linux instructions*
Once again my luck proves itself.

I'll give this a try latter and see how it works.

JT9161
June 8th, 2008, 04:28 PM
Tried it on my dads XP home machine, Both the fedora and Sidux creator gave me a "couldn't find Live OS " error message after ISO extraction with a Ubuntu 8.04 ISO

hjt4vdr
June 9th, 2008, 12:46 PM
Tried it on my dads XP home machine, Both the fedora and Sidux creator gave me a "couldn't find Live OS " error message after ISO extraction with a Ubuntu 8.04 ISO

hi,

you tried version 003?

can you post syslinux.cfg pls.

default vesamenu.c32
timeout 150

menu background splash.jpg
menu title Welcome to sidux!
menu color border 0 #ffffffff #00000000
menu color sel 7 #ffffffff #ff777777
menu color title 0 #ffffffff #00000000
menu color tabmsg 0 #ffffffff #00000000
menu color unsel 0 #ffffffff #00000000
menu color hotsel 0 #ff000000 #ffffffff
menu color hotkey 7 #ffffffff #ff000000
menu color timeout_msg 0 #ffffffff #00000000
menu color timeout 0 #ffffffff #00000000
menu color cmdline 0 #ffffffff #00000000

label sidux i686
menu label sidux i686
menu default
kernel boot/vmlinuz0
append initrd=boot/initrd0.img boot=fll quiet vga=791 fromiso=sidux/sidux.iso persist=sidux/sidux.img nointro

which files are in the boot and sidux folder?


E:\boot
09.06.2008 13:39 <DIR> .
09.06.2008 13:39 <DIR> ..
04.06.2008 00:35 7.202.459 initrd0.img
04.06.2008 00:35 1.791.520 vmlinuz0


E:\sidux

09.06.2008 13:39 <DIR> .
09.06.2008 13:39 <DIR> ..
09.06.2008 13:40 469.266.432 sidux.iso
09.06.2008 13:40 113.246.208 sidux.img

splitsch
June 15th, 2008, 09:08 PM
Hello !
Could you tell us if you're planning on doing this tools for linux ?
Like a *.sh or somthing...because, uunfortunately, I don't have windows ;)

Or, could you tell what change you made to the original sources, so I could build something for linux.
I'm not really good at this, but I'd really like to give it a shot !

Thanks !

Splitsch

hjt4vdr
June 16th, 2008, 08:00 AM
Hello !
Could you tell us if you're planning on doing this tools for linux ?
Like a *.sh or somthing...because, uunfortunately, I don't have windows ;)

Or, could you tell what change you made to the original sources, so I could build something for linux.
I'm not really good at this, but I'd really like to give it a shot !

Thanks !

Splitsch

hi,

download last sidux, start the livecd and use
install-usb-gui.bash for gui installation or
fll-iso2usb for terminal
http://svn.berlios.de/wsvn/fullstory/fll-installer/trunk/fll-iso2usb
#--------------------------------------------------------------
# functions
#--------------------------------------------------------------
usage()
{
echo ""
echo "Create an fromiso (frugal) installation on a USB drive"
echo ""
echo "-d|--debug debug sh code execution"
echo "-D|--drive </dev/sdX> name of device where to install the \"fromiso\""
echo "-n|--noformat do not format partition"
echo "-f|--format vfat|ext2|ext3 format partition with given filesystem"
echo "-p|--persist use cheatcode persist"
echo "-h|--help print this help"
echo "-I|--iso <iso_file> iso file name to be installed"
echo "-t|--test copy everything but do not copy the iso"
echo ""
echo "Everything after -- will be appended to the kernel cmdline of grub menu.lst"
echo ""
echo "Use it at your own risk, it comes without any warranty."
echo ""

tuxcantfly
June 25th, 2008, 02:16 AM
Hello !
Could you tell us if you're planning on doing this tools for linux ?
Like a *.sh or somthing...because, uunfortunately, I don't have windows ;)

Or, could you tell what change you made to the original sources, so I could build something for linux.
I'm not really good at this, but I'd really like to give it a shot !

Thanks !

Splitsch

My own, earlier tool, UNetbootin (http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/), can create liveUSB installs for Ubuntu and most other mainstream distros. It can run from both Windows or Linux. You can obtain it at http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ I have a guide here on the forums at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=811397 and an earlier one at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=427540

To anyone interested, here's a screenshot of UNetbootin (http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/) running on Ubuntu (Fedora and other Linux distributions are supported as well):

http://sourceforge.net/dbimage.php?id=173791

And a screenshot of UNetbootin (http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/) on Windows Vista (Windows 2000, XP, and newer are also supported)

http://sourceforge.net/dbimage.php?id=167328

By the way, looking at that liveusb-creator screenshot, the user interface looks remarkably similar to some earlier versions of my own application. The toolkit (Qt4) and approach used (bundled in 7-zip and syslinux via QResource to extract ISO and install bootloader) are also the same; disregarding syntactical differences between Python (liveusb-creator) and C++ (UNetbootin), even the code looks similar. Looking at the git history logs, it appears that the first commit was made in February, shortly after UNetbootin made the frontpage of Linux.com, Digg, and a variety of other tech sites in January. Just wondering (not pointing fingers or anything; I'm fully aware that the GPL allows for nearly unrestricted forking; just curious), does anyone close with the liveusb-creator project know whether liveusb-creator was forked from or based on UNetbootin, because it certainly appears to be, though I didn't find any info saying so?

sharks
June 25th, 2008, 02:19 AM
its not useful for me as i dont have windows.

papsynot
August 8th, 2008, 03:25 AM
By the way, looking at that liveusb-creator screenshot, the user interface looks remarkably similar to some earlier versions of my own application. The toolkit (Qt4) and approach used (bundled in 7-zip and syslinux via QResource to extract ISO and install bootloader) are also the same; disregarding syntactical differences between Python (liveusb-creator) and C++ (UNetbootin), even the code looks similar. Looking at the git history logs, it appears that the first commit was made in February, shortly after UNetbootin made the frontpage of Linux.com, Digg, and a variety of other tech sites in January. Just wondering (not pointing fingers or anything; I'm fully aware that the GPL allows for nearly unrestricted forking; just curious), does anyone close with the liveusb-creator project know whether liveusb-creator was forked from or based on UNetbootin, because it certainly appears to be, though I didn't find any info saying so?

No, the liveusb-creator is not a fork of UNetbootin. The code is much better.

moycano
August 22nd, 2008, 01:21 AM
I test the liveusb-creator fork posted by hjt4vdr, and must say I finally got a persistent GNU/linux distro running from my flash drive after days of line commands and even others graphical assistants!

It work both with Xubuntu Hardy and sidux erebos but since I cant get a custom desktop environment (honestly, the default xfce setup isn't much practical) I may prefer stick to Xubuntu.

And is refreshing to see a distro with that much documentation included (because I first try in a laptop without web connection). This debian brad worth to keep an eye on.

UPDATE: The program can't complete the process if the folder has a long name.