[Live-demo] [OSGeo-Discuss] Mass production of OSGeo Live USB - any SMEs providing this ?

Fri Apr 21 05:13:21 PDT 2017

Hi Jim,

Yes you are right. I hope you might feel inspired to update the page?

Likely, the best idea would be to remove most/all existing content, 
reference the USB Quickstart [1], then add any extra information about 
your process.

[1] https://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/usb_quickstart.html

On 21/4/17 2:31 am, Jim Klassen wrote:
>
> That wiki page is woefully out of date (seems last update for OSGeo 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.
>
> 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).
>
> 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.
>
> I don't know what will work for others, just sharing what has worked 
> for me.
>
> On 04/18/2017 03:47 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>
>> Hi James, others,
>>
>> 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:
>>
>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Quick_Start_for_USB
>>
>> And if you have ideas which are "production ready", we should include 
>> them in our main OSGeo-Live Quickstart:
>> https://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/usb_quickstart.html
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Cameron
>>
>> On 19/4/17 1:02 am, James Klassen wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> [1] https://github.com/klassenjs/copy_usb 
>>> <https://github.com/klassenjs/copy_usb>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Apr 18, 2017 9:49 AM, "Suchith Anand" 
>>> <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk 
>>> <mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     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 .
>>>
>>>
>>>     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 .
>>>
>>>     Suchith
>>>
>>>
>>>     [1]
>>>     http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/live-demo/2017-March/012009.html
>>>     <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/live-demo/2017-March/012009.html>
>>>
>>>
>>>     ________________________________________
>>>     From: Live-demo <live-demo-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>>>     <mailto:live-demo-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>> on behalf of Bas
>>>     Couwenberg <sebastic at xs4all.nl <mailto:sebastic at xs4all.nl>>
>>>     Sent: 18 April 2017 3:19 PM
>>>     To: OSGeo Discussions; live-demo
>>>     Subject: Re: [Live-demo] Mass production of OSGeo Live USB - any
>>>     SMEs providing this ?
>>>
>>>     On 2017-04-18 15:55, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) wrote:
>>>     > Just to add to the mix, and stir the pot somewhat, an idea to
>>>     consider
>>>     > on this . . . what about . . .
>>>     >
>>>     > having some sort of support stack/infrastructure in place for
>>>     > providing the OSGeo-Live as a bunch of different devices and
>>>     > (portable) services.  For example,
>>>     >
>>>     >
>>>     >   *   Generating the Thumb Drives
>>>     >      *   These should be generated as needed, based on our usage
>>>     > locally for different events.  When we don’t end up using some
>>>     of them
>>>     > at a particular event, we end up re-writing them with the newer
>>>     > version of OSGeo-Live for the next event.  Not really an
>>>     economically
>>>     > sound model.
>>>     >   *   Setting up something like a Raspberry Pi with OSGeo-Live.
>>>     > Possibly for resale, certainly as a download for other to install.
>>>     >   *   Setting up a Cloud (OSGE Certified?!) version of OSGe-Live
>>>     >   *   As has been mentioned before, an application picker for
>>>     > installation of software would go a long ways.
>>>     >      *   There’s a bit of effort required for this one I’ll
>>>     grant you,
>>>     > but it would certainly go along was toward promoting OSGeo.
>>>     >   *   Cloud service(s) version of OSGeo.
>>>     >   *   Setting up a Docker . . .
>>>     >
>>>     > Well you get the idea,  if your going to pay for something, may as
>>>     > well go for broke.  You end up with a one stop shop and possibly a
>>>     > container of sorts for other projects to add in their own
>>>     dedicated
>>>     > versions of the same sort of devices/services.
>>>
>>>     Are you volunteering to implement any of the above?
>>>
>>>     These are good suggestions, but without people to do the work it
>>>     will
>>>     never materialize.
>>>
>>>     OSGeo-Live is understaffed as it is, see also:
>>>
>>>     http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/live-demo/2017-April/012031.html
>>>     <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/live-demo/2017-April/012031.html>
>>>
>>>
>>>     Kind Regards,
>>>
>>>     Bas
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