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

[activityworkshop]

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