Howto make USB boot drives

[P-I H]

Will take some time. I have to change computer. Now I'm setting up a new gnome installation in Tumbleweed.

[P-I H]

Pictures
1- Other window at start at 15-28-19
2- Terminal window 100% at 15-29-51
3- Other window whe terminal window shows 100 % at 15-30-05
4- Other window when almost ready at 15-32-27
5- Terminal window after almost ready at 15-32-46

[P-I H]

The two last pictures
6- Other window when finished at 15-34-30
7- Terminal window when finished 15-34-52

[sudodus]

Thanks @P-i H

[sudodus]

@P-i H,

The screenshots show what I would expect:

- pv will show 100%, way before the buffers are flushed (syncing).

- Instead of simply waiting in silence, there is output showing how the buffers are flushed.

The sequence above is particularly obvious, when there is a lot of RAM and a fairly new version of Ubuntu

- Finally there is cleanup after writing and after that you can finish mkusb-dus.

-o-

I think there should be the same output from mkusb-dus also when there is 'nothing wrong'.

Are these screenshots connected to the problem you saw, that usr_bin_udevadm crashes just before the mkusb script is ready?

In that case, is there any output showing it except the crash info in /var/crash?

Edit: Maybe there should be some explaining text in the window showing how the buffers are flushed. Please suggest what should be written to explain better, what is happening

[P-I H]

I thought it might be connected to the problem. When you make a boot usb of over 4 GB it takes quit a long time before Done is written.
The terminal window is the main window and perhaps a text like this should give a better understanding
"Please wait for sync until 'Done* is written and the dus-live window shows a ready transfer"
I will install Ubuntu 20.10 on another computer and see if I get the crash.

[sudodus]

I thought it might be connected to the problem. When you make a boot usb of over 4 GB it takes quit a long time before Done is written.
The terminal window is the main window and perhaps a text like this should give a better understanding
"Please wait for sync until 'Done* is written and the dus-live window shows a ready transfer"
I will install Ubuntu 20.10 on another computer and see if I get the crash.

or maybe:

"Please wait for sync until 'Done' is written
and, if there is a progress window
wait for the buffered data to get flushed,
so that all data are transferred to the target device"

[P-I H]

That's fine.

[sudodus]

That's fine.

Done, mkusb-dus version 12.6.8 is uploaded with the new information (text with blue background)

[kagashe]

I am away from my home and borrowed Dell Inspiron Laptop with Windows 7 for my use. I downloaded Rufus and Xubuntu 20.04.1 ISO and installed persistent Live system on USB and it is working fine.

I installed mkusb on it and installed persistent Live system on another USB but the boot gets stuck at splash image showing mkusb icon.

Please note that the usb made with Rufus boots with Syslinux.

Kamalakar