Dear fellow Lubuntu users,
I have uploaded mkusb version 8.3 to Phill's server. I think it is ready to be used by several more people now. I think it is a good alternative to the Startup Disk Creator and Unetbootin in order to create USB boot drives. It is fast and reliable, and I hope it will be easy to use. ----- The following information is extracted from this wiki page https://help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb ----- *mkusb version 8.3* The new version of the mkusb tool, version 8.3, is still only a bash script. Previous versions have been running in crude text mode, but people want eye candy, so I've made menus with 'dialog' (big brother of 'whiptail' used by for example the installers of Ubuntu mini.iso and Lubuntu's alternate iso file). File selection uses 'zenity' in desktop environments and 'dialog' in text screens. The identification of devices is also improved (replaced calling 'parted -ls' with a home-made bash function) based on the bash string found by the command grep by-id mkusb *Improvements and new features* * Improved identification of devices * Cloning from uncompressed image files, 'file.img' (new feature, earlier only from compressed image files) * Menu shell with menus to * find and select input file alias source in the cloning process 'source file --> target drive' * select wipe the first megabyte (actually mibibyte MiB) * find and select target device (typically but now always a USB drive) * help double-check selecting the correct device (check-points and warnings) * start the cloning process 'source file --> target drive' * select file with menus, not only via command line parameter * with 'zenity' in DEs is introduced in version 8.2 * with 'dialog' in text screens and whenever zenity does not work * select file debugged and improved in version 8.3 *Text screen and graphical desktop environments* mkusb still runs in text screens and terminal windows, so it works in the Ubuntu desktop flavours as well as in Ubuntu Server and text mode mini systems. A zenity file selector is used if a test window can be lauched in the current environment. Otherwise a dialog file selector is used. The other menus are dialog menus. zenity --info --text="test" --timeout=1 2> /dev/null When you login remotely from a graphical desktop environment and it can be used at both ends, mkusb wants to use zenity, so you should enable X. ssh -X nio@server ... sudo ./mkusb # to select source file via menus sudo ./mkusb file.iso # to select source file via the command line is still possible *Help selecting the correct target device* The crucial task of mkusb was and is to help selecting the correct device and avoid overwriting other devices. *Downloading information* The file mkusb is uploaded to http://phillw.net/isos/linux-tools/mkusb/ Check it with the corresponding signed md5sum file. -rwxrwxr-x. 1 nio nio 38331 30 jul 18.48 mkusb -rw-rw-r--. 1 nio nio 851 30 jul 19.25 md5sum.txt.asc ----- There is still a chance for you to help testing that the new mkusb version works also for you. Maybe you will find a bug. In that case I'll be happy to squash it ;-) Best regards Nio -- Lubuntu-users mailing list Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
