[Live-demo] Re: Booting from OSGEOLive USB flash drive

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi,

Thanks for the testing.

We will try to improve USB creation instructions soon.
As for shutting down the machine, there is an icon on the Desktop for 
this reason, created specialy for the shutdown/log off issue.

Regards,
Angelos

On 02/20/2012 10:20 PM, activityworkshop wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Thanks for the tips.  I downloaded an Ubuntu 11.10 image and burned it 
> to CD-RW; from there I was able to use its startup disk creator to put 
> the osgeo 5.5-mini-beta4 iso onto the USB stick.  This time the stick 
> booted on one of the two computers (the second still refused, don't 
> know why).
>
> So here's what I found:
> - I recommend you put some note in the wiki page about requiring an 
> Ubuntu startup disk creator > 11.04 or whatever the minimum is.
> - It booted fine and seemed to run fine during my short test.  Looks 
> good too!
> - Sun java is properly installed (I was expecting to have to test 
> openjdk)
> - Start icons for Prune are in the right places (thanks!)
> - Prune seems to run fine, version 12 as expected
> - I had a funny keyboard issue, where it seemed to think that my "Fn" 
> key was pressed down.  So pressing "j" gave me a 1, and pressing 
> Fn+"j" (which should give a "1") gave me a j.  Very weird, but it 
> turns out this laptop keyboard has a "NumLock" feature which I've 
> never used before!  Didn't even know it had one.  Pressing Fn+F11 
> turned the numlock off again and then I could type normally.  
> Obviously not an osgeo bug but I'll mention it here in case it 
> confuses somebody else!
> - When I tried to shut down, first it did nothing, then second time it 
> complained that "Session manager must be in idle state when requesting 
> a shutdown."  I guess it was stuck trying the first request.  Couldn't 
> log off either, for the same reason.  I've reproduced this, no clue 
> what it's about, but again I presume it's not an osgeo problem.
> - If you're stuck for space, have you thought about removing the 
> "Games" directory?  Maybe a controversial suggestion but maybe it 
> would save a few vital MB...
>
> Cheers,
> activityworkshop
>
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Angelos Tzotsos
Remote Sensing Laboratory
National Technical University of Athens
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