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<p>That wiki page is woefully out of date (seems last update for
OSGeo Live 6.5). I'm not sure how to coherently add onto that.</p>
<p>I follow the instructions using the Ubuntu Startup Disk Creator
to create the initial image (so I can fill up unused space with a
persistent storage file -- we have generally used 8GB USB3 thumb
drives).<br>
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<p>I have no idea if my copy_usb duplicator program is "production
ready" or not other than it has worked well for me on multiple
occasions for creating/updating OSGeo Live USB on about 100 sticks
each time to hand out at conferences. It is faster than running
dd or the "Startup Disk Creator" for each stick and it doesn't
require prior knowledge of the state of the stick like whatever
the other tool was that I was looking at before I decided to write
my own. I presume it might be useful for others (and that's why I
published it on GitHub), but I haven't heard of anyone else using
it. I know it is very Linux (and possibly Debian) specific for
compiling and running.</p>
<p>I don't know what will work for others, just sharing what has
worked for me.<br>
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<p>On 04/18/2017 03:47 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:<br>
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<p>Hi James, others,<br>
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<p>Yes, please do share any tips, tricks and tools you have worked
out re USB creation (and other tips) in our wiki. A starting
point for collecting USB ideas is here:</p>
<p><a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
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And if you have ideas which are "production ready", we should
include them in our main OSGeo-Live Quickstart:<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Cameron<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 19/4/17 1:02 am, James Klassen
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<div dir="auto"><span>Not sure if it is useful to others but I
wrote a program [1] to help me when Bob wants a bunch of
OSGeo-Live thumb drives created. It isn't by any means
perfect or 100% foolproof but it sure makes the job quicker
for me.</span>
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<div dir="auto">It takes an image and waits for USBs of the
same size to be inserted, then copys the difference between
the image and the drive (this is quicker as reads are much
faster than writes on the thumb drives I have seen). It
handles multiple thumb drives at a time, so after starting
it, it is just down to changing out drives for new ones as
they finish copying.</div>
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<div dir="auto">I make the image running OSGeo Live in KVM and
let it build a virtual USB at the size of the drives I have
on hand. It can help to have the image on a tmpfs to avoid
the source being a bottleneck.</div>
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<div dir="auto">[1] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://github.com/klassenjs/copy_usb">https://github.com/klassenjs/<wbr>copy_usb</a><br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 18, 2017 9:49 AM, "Suchith
Anand" <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<p>OSGeo Live is one of the excellent success stories
of OSGeo and it is important as a community we need
to pool our ideas/resources for not only keeping
building upon this but expanding for the future.
Hence i put this in the wider lists to stimulate
ideas. For example at the recent RDA meetings in
Barcelona , i started pushing for getting sponsors
to fund dedicate staff time for OSGeo Live
educational materials for UN and other
training/capacity development needs [1] and i will
keep pushing this through all my contacts .<br>
</p>
<br>
The ideas put by Brian are excellent for the
industry/SME ecosystem of OSGeo to start exploring and
expanding. For example Cloud service(s) version of
OSGeo. Time for online version of QGIS has come (it
will be better than Arcgisonline or other properitery
ones). QGISOnline will be a true open platform .<br>
<br>
Suchith<br>
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Sent: 18 April 2017 3:19 PM<br>
To: OSGeo Discussions; live-demo<br>
Subject: Re: [Live-demo] Mass production of OSGeo Live
USB - any SMEs providing this ?<br>
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On 2017-04-18 15:55, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) wrote:<br>
> Just to add to the mix, and stir the pot
somewhat, an idea to consider<br>
> on this . . . what about . . .<br>
><br>
> having some sort of support stack/infrastructure
in place for<br>
> providing the OSGeo-Live as a bunch of different
devices and<br>
> (portable) services. For example,<br>
><br>
><br>
> * Generating the Thumb Drives<br>
> * These should be generated as needed,
based on our usage<br>
> locally for different events. When we don’t end
up using some of them<br>
> at a particular event, we end up re-writing them
with the newer<br>
> version of OSGeo-Live for the next event. Not
really an economically<br>
> sound model.<br>
> * Setting up something like a Raspberry Pi
with OSGeo-Live.<br>
> Possibly for resale, certainly as a download for
other to install.<br>
> * Setting up a Cloud (OSGE Certified?!)
version of OSGe-Live<br>
> * As has been mentioned before, an
application picker for<br>
> installation of software would go a long ways.<br>
> * There’s a bit of effort required for
this one I’ll grant you,<br>
> but it would certainly go along was toward
promoting OSGeo.<br>
> * Cloud service(s) version of OSGeo.<br>
> * Setting up a Docker . . .<br>
><br>
> Well you get the idea, if your going to pay for
something, may as<br>
> well go for broke. You end up with a one stop
shop and possibly a<br>
> container of sorts for other projects to add in
their own dedicated<br>
> versions of the same sort of devices/services.<br>
<br>
Are you volunteering to implement any of the above?<br>
<br>
These are good suggestions, but without people to do
the work it will<br>
never materialize.<br>
<br>
OSGeo-Live is understaffed as it is, see also:<br>
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Kind Regards,<br>
<br>
Bas<br>
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