Being part of the development is way above my capcity, but I can help you brainstorm for names.
The first that sprang to mind was Copycat. You could make varieties of this, like Copylion or copytiger, 'cos it does it like a boss, or the other way round, Copykitten, because it's such a light application. In the same line, you could say Copybox, because it's a little kinda dropbox that starts copying everything you put in there. I'll see what else comes up. On 25 September 2012 00:33, Wouter Vandenneucker <wouterv...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi all > > As some of you might know, last sunday (yesterday) there was a dipro fair > in Hasselt. > Since both William (leader USB stick project) and Claudio (leader ISO > project) where present, we talked about the new USB sticks and tried some > things. > > At the moment we're having sticks with 1 single ISO on it and some sticks > with a multiboot of Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu on them. > It striked us that we needed a simple way to copy files to the usb drives. > (So we bought a hub at dipro to be able to write more USBcards at the same > time) > We used ddrescue to copy the image, but having to look for the right names > of the devices and copying them 1 by 1, changing the drive letter was a bit > cumbersome. > > So this evening I set out to simplify that issue. > > *Ultimate goal -* masterstyle > I'm thinking about a small personal project that I've nicknamed "black > box". The goal would be that you insert all drives, tell the program what > the master is and it would duplicate that master to all the rest. Ideally, > it would take the right image itself and copy to all drives without user > input. > > I was thinking about a single board computer with only 1 button and an > LED. Pressing the button would make the script run, autoselecting the right > image from the harddrive (sda) and copying it to all usb devices attached > to it (sd*). > * > There I fixed it -* hackerstyle > So where are we at after 1 evening of coding? > I made a script called autoDD.sh (if you know a cooler name, please shoot!) > I'm not going to bother you all with the code right now, but this is how > it works: > > you launch the script by typing: > >> *sudo bash autoDD.sh /Master/Image/Or/Drive* >> > > The script only works if you've got a computer with 1 harddrive (SDA) and > if you've got a USB with the master file on it. > you insert that first, before the empty usb drives. you call the script > with: > > *sudo bash autoDD.sh /dev/sdb* >> > > Now the script always rejects /dev/sda because I've told it that that is > the default harddrive, then it takes the drive you've provided (/dev/sdb) > and then it copies that content to all other /dev/sd* devices. > > *Things to test > *There are a couple things I need/want to test before releasing the code: > > - having a master file in an ISO format. > - normally the script already works if you want this. You could in > theory provide autoDD.sh with a /path/to/ISO instead of a /dev/sdb, but > I > haven't test it > - speed when writing to more than 1 or 2 USB devices at the same time > - Again, in theory all should be fine, but I didn't test it. > > > I'll test these things this week and I'll try to add a failsafe for people > with more harddrives in their computer. (because this script will ruin your > system if you have more than 1 hdd and/or if it isn't sda. > > That being said, the script successfully copied the contents of 1 stick to > 2 other sticks during my late night snack, so it does work. > If someone has a better idea to make it a real "blackbox" (with that I > mean 1 button, 1 LED, tons of USB slots and no screen, mouse or keyboard), > please give your views.. > > Grts > > > Wouter > > -- > ubuntu-be mailing list / mailto:ubuntu-be@lists.ubuntu.com > > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-be > > -- Microsoft programs are like Englishmen. They only speak Microsoft.
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