I'm doing some work for a client and I need to get a copy of ubuntu to
demo for them. I can only use a usb disk (no cdrom), and unfortunately
the guys at ubuntu are too lazy to create a flash img themselves and
expect you to do it yourself. Of course the tools to do this are only
available on Winblows and Mac (hdiutils? I think). They have
instructions on the site - which of course are useless to me being a
FreeBSD freak ;)
I googled a bit and found an old post here from Luigi
(http://osdir.com/ml/freebsd-hackers/2008-11/msg00245.html) which had a
script to do this, but I'm having trouble with it- is anyone familiar
with this? I'm on a bit of a deadline... and yes, I did install syslinux
port.
Output:
../iso2flash ubuntu-11.10-desktop-i386.iso
usage: realpath [-q] path [...]
type <> tree </usr/home/<user>/Downloads/ubuntu-11.10-desktop-i386.iso>
image <>
Extract files from
/usr/home/<user>/Downloads/ubuntu-11.10-desktop-i386.iso into
/usr/home/<user>/Downloads/ubuntu-11.10-desktop-i386.iso.tree
chmod: /usr/home/<user>/Downloads/ubuntu-11.10-desktop-i386.iso.tree: No
such file or directory
total 6
drwxr-xr-x 2 <user> <user> 512 Mar 21 18:22 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 <user> <user> 2560 Mar 21 18:22 ..
total 2500
drwxr-xr-x 11 <user> <user> 512 Mar 21 18:23 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 <user> <user> 2560 Mar 21 18:22 ..
drwx------ 2 <user> <user> 512 Oct 13 01:15 .disk
-r-------- 1 <user> <user> 225 Oct 13 01:15 README.diskdefines
-r-------- 1 <user> <user> 143 Oct 13 01:15 autorun.inf
drwx------ 3 <user> <user> 512 Oct 13 01:15 boot
drwx------ 2 <user> <user> 512 Oct 13 01:15 casper
drwx------ 3 <user> <user> 512 Oct 13 01:15 dists
drwx------ 2 <user> <user> 512 Oct 13 01:15 install
drwx------ 2 <user> <user> 2560 Oct 13 01:15 isolinux
-r-------- 1 <user> <user> 4418 Oct 13 01:15 md5sum.txt
drwx------ 2 <user> <user> 512 Oct 13 01:15 pics
drwx------ 4 <user> <user> 512 Oct 13 01:15 pool
drwx------ 2 <user> <user> 512 Oct 13 01:15 preseed
-r-------- 1 <user> <user> 2491552 Oct 13 01:15 wubi.exe
image size is 711676 kb
guess type
8+0 records in
8+0 records out
1048576 bytes transferred in 0.005349 secs (196035057 bytes/sec)
newfs_msdos: /dev/711676: No such file or directory
syslinux: invalid media signature (not a FAT filesystem?)
moving boot code
mv: rename
/usr/home/<user>/Downloads/ubuntu-11.10-desktop-i386.iso.tree/isolinux.cfg
to
/usr/home/<user>/Downloads/ubuntu-11.10-desktop-i386.iso.tree/syslinux.cfg:
No such file or directory
moving files...
init :: non DOS media
Cannot initialize '::'
Bad target ::/
init :: non DOS media
Cannot initialize '::'
I'm going to keep on investigating, I tried this on 8.2 and 9.0 with no
luck. I intend to attempt a usb install of FreeBSD at some point (on the
todo list for some time now), but at this point its still a bit of a
mystery; so I think I may have some trouble understanding this atm. A
little instruction would go a long way if someone could provide some
pointers.
Cheers
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