[Live-demo] Re: Please check the updated USB quickstart

Cameron Shorter cameron.shorter at gmail.com
Wed Feb 22 13:45:42 PST 2012


Thankyou activityworkshop for the review.
I've actioned your comments, and have just committed updates.

On 23/02/12 06:43, activityworkshop wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Yep, that pretty much describes what I already did.  The only sentence I
> find confusing is this one:
>     If using a DVD, then put the DVD into the DVD drive.
>
> I'd leave this sentence out completely, because you're already running
> ubuntu, you've already downloaded the iso to the hard drive, and you've
> plugged in the usb stick - that's all you need.
>
> Oh, and if you're running ubuntu, then the path to the startup disk
> creator isn't "System - Administration - Startup disk creator" (or even
> "Applications - System - Startup disk creator" as in your screenshot).
> In the default Ubuntu live system you don't get a programs menu like
> that at all, just a place to type in a search term.  See for example
> this screenshot:
>     http://cdn.omgubuntu.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/dash.jpg
> or search for "ubuntu 11.10 dash".  I don't know a clear way to describe
> it, but it's pretty different from the start menus most people are
> familiar with.
>
> Cheers,
> activityworkshop
>
>
>>  On 22/02/12 23:04, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>>>  I've just updated the USB Quickstart to include the tips that have
>>>  been discussed on email recently and updates to the source wiki page.
>>>
>>>  I'd really appreciate it if someone can check it  see if you can
>>>  create a USB.
>>>
>>>  Docs will be here in 1 hour:
>>>  http://adhoc.osgeo.osuosl.org/livedvd/docs/en/quickstart/usb_quickstart.html 
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  Source:
>>>  http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/browser/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/doc/en/quickstart/usb_quickstart.rst 
>>>
>
>
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