Re: iso2flash img

2012-03-23 Thread Da Rock
On 03/23/12 22:38, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Haven't you heard? CD's are so yesterday... ;) Just wait until the holodiscs come out. :)) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc Now thats what I'm talkin' 'bout! Although I could still probably fill one in a matter of hours...

Re: iso2flash img

2012-03-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > Haven't you heard? CD's are so yesterday... ;) Just wait until the holodiscs come out. :)) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc Have a nice day :) Thomas ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.or

Re: iso2flash img

2012-03-23 Thread Da Rock
On 03/23/12 22:08, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Thats the whole point of this exercise - I can't, no cdrom: its a netbook. I hoped that you had a USB attachable optical drive in reach for development. Haven't you heard? CD's are so yesterday... ;) The reality is I don't have a working CDROM unl

Re: iso2flash img

2012-03-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > Thats the whole point of this exercise - I can't, no cdrom: its a netbook. I hoped that you had a USB attachable optical drive in reach for development. > My disk worked in VBox, so I'm sure it is just a netbook thing. I > also use that disk as my "install" disk, so I'm not sure exactly w

Re: iso2flash img

2012-03-23 Thread Da Rock
On 03/23/12 17:06, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Da Rock wrote: It shows isolinux 4.04, blah blah, and a blinking cursor. It goes no further than that, which I why I commented that it seemed an unlikely solution. If it can say "isolinux" then the boot process has succeeded as far as the boot sect

Re: iso2flash img

2012-03-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Da Rock wrote: > It shows isolinux 4.04, blah blah, and a blinking cursor. It goes no further > than that, which I why I commented that it seemed an unlikely solution. If it can say "isolinux" then the boot process has succeeded as far as the boot sectors of the ISO image are responsible.

Re: iso2flash img

2012-03-22 Thread Da Rock
On 03/23/12 04:46, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, The trick is called "isohybrid". Luigi Rizzo wrote: interesting. It does work for me indeed. So why not for Da Rock ? Starting to feel left out here :) I tried with your flags to dd (as opposed to those on Ubuntu - bs=1m - not that I thought i

Re: iso2flash img

2012-03-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > > The trick is called "isohybrid". Luigi Rizzo wrote: > interesting. It does work for me indeed. So why not for Da Rock ? > And it might be a nice trick for our images too, so we don't > have to build a memstick and an ISO image... I would be happy to help with that. I am the developer

Re: iso2flash img

2012-03-22 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 05:42:27PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Vitaly Magerya : > > > you might want to try to dd the iso image directly onto USB instead; there > > > where talks that Ubuntu would support this starting at 11.10. > > Da Rock : > > Nada. Tried that and it didn't work. I'

Re: iso2flash img

2012-03-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Vitaly Magerya : > > you might want to try to dd the iso image directly onto USB instead; there > > where talks that Ubuntu would support this starting at 11.10. Da Rock : > Nada. Tried that and it didn't work. I'm not sure how that would work given > that it uses isolinux to boot- ergo needs

Re: iso2flash img

2012-03-22 Thread Royce Williams
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 3:15 AM, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 10:52:53AM -0500, Mark Felder wrote: >> As an alternative I recently purchased a Zalman ZM-VE200 device (there's >> also a USB3.0 flavor) that lets you copy ISOs to it and it will emulate a >> CDROM/DVDROM/BDROM for you

Re: iso2flash img

2012-03-22 Thread Da Rock
On 03/21/12 23:34, Andrzej Tobola wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:16:59PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On 03/21/12 23:06, Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, I've forwarded your question to a colleague who is an Ubuntu fan and he replied, that the creation of a booting Ubuntu USB key is possile with Ubunt

Re: iso2flash img

2012-03-22 Thread Rodrigo OSORIO
On 22/03/12 12:15 +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 10:52:53AM -0500, Mark Felder wrote: > > As an alternative I recently purchased a Zalman ZM-VE200 device (there's > > also a USB3.0 flavor) that lets you copy ISOs to it and it will emulate a > > CDROM/DVDROM/BDROM for you so

Re: iso2flash img

2012-03-22 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 10:52:53AM -0500, Mark Felder wrote: > As an alternative I recently purchased a Zalman ZM-VE200 device (there's > also a USB3.0 flavor) that lets you copy ISOs to it and it will emulate a > CDROM/DVDROM/BDROM for you so you never have to deal with this mess again. > It

Re: iso2flash img

2012-03-22 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:11:42PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: ... > In the meantime I think I may have stumbled on the solution to the > script: In the midst of all the output it mentions "usage realpath [-q] > path". I wasn't 100% sure exactly what that meant, but I put the full > path to the iso an

Re: iso2flash img

2012-03-21 Thread Da Rock
On 03/21/12 22:55, Vitaly Magerya wrote: Da Rock wrote: 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... Ca

Re: iso2flash img

2012-03-21 Thread Simon Dick
On 21 March 2012 15:52, Mark Felder wrote: > As an alternative I recently purchased a Zalman ZM-VE200 device (there's > also a USB3.0 flavor) that lets you copy ISOs to it and it will emulate a > CDROM/DVDROM/BDROM for you so you never have to deal with this mess again. > It works amazingly well.

Re: iso2flash img

2012-03-21 Thread Mark Felder
As an alternative I recently purchased a Zalman ZM-VE200 device (there's also a USB3.0 flavor) that lets you copy ISOs to it and it will emulate a CDROM/DVDROM/BDROM for you so you never have to deal with this mess again. It works amazingly well. I was tired of fighting this problem and this

Re: iso2flash img

2012-03-21 Thread Da Rock
On 03/21/12 23:11, Da Rock wrote: On 03/21/12 22:55, Vitaly Magerya wrote: Da Rock wrote: 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

Re: iso2flash img

2012-03-21 Thread Da Rock
On 03/21/12 23:06, Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, I've forwarded your question to a colleague who is an Ubuntu fan and he replied, that the creation of a booting Ubuntu USB key is possile with Ubuntu tools/methods only, i.e. booting the Ubuntu live CD and following the ways to install it onto the

Re: iso2flash img

2012-03-21 Thread Da Rock
On 03/21/12 22:55, Vitaly Magerya wrote: Da Rock wrote: 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... Ca

Re: iso2flash img

2012-03-21 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, I've forwarded your question to a colleague who is an Ubuntu fan and he replied, that the creation of a booting Ubuntu USB key is possile with Ubuntu tools/methods only, i.e. booting the Ubuntu live CD and following the ways to install it onto the key (and not on disk). He wrote some year

Re: iso2flash img

2012-03-21 Thread Vitaly Magerya
Da Rock wrote: > 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... Can't help you with that script (I

iso2flash img

2012-03-21 Thread Da Rock
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 W