[OSGeoLive] problem with bootable usb stick creation via dd

[James Klassen]

I have made hundreds of OSGeo Live USBs for various local conferences.  In
my experience with past versions, copying with dd should work as long as
the sticks are all the same size.  I haven't tried it with 12 yet.

As a fall back I think you can just dd the iso to the USB stick (with the
loss of the optional persistence file - which was not acceptable for us
because we were using it for a workshop and wanted them to be able to save
their work).  Still, it might be worth a test.

IIRC getting the persistence file working on the USB master image was
harder with 11 than in previous versions.  Whatever option I had been using
was removed from the official usb-creator GUI tool.  I probably have notes
somewhere on what I did.

Once you have a good image, I wrote a Linux utility [1] to ease the pain
when I had to make hundreds of OSGeo Live USBs.  You give it an image file
and it will automatically start copying the image to any USB that is
inserted that matches the size of the image file.  There is cli and X11
front end.

[1] https://github.com/klassenjs/copy_usb

On Thu, Aug 16, 2018, 17:24 Angelos Tzotsos <gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com> wrote:

> Another good test would be to create the usb with ddrescue:
>
>
> https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-create-a-bootable-ubuntu-18-04-bionic-usb-stick-on-linux
>
> Best,
> Angelos
>
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 7:00 PM Angelos Tzotsos <gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Astrid,
>>
>> Can you please check if dd works with plain Lubuntu 18.04 iso file?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Angelos
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 3:34 PM Astrid Emde (OSGeo) <
>> astrid_emde at osgeo.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Angelos,
>>>
>>> it is 0.3.3 version on Bionic
>>>
>>> Astrid
>>>
>>> Am 16.08.2018 14:26 schrieb Angelos Tzotsos:
>>> > Thanks for reporting Astrid.
>>> > Can you please provide the usbcreator version you use? Is it from
>>> > Bionic or from previous Ubuntu version?
>>> >
>>> > Best,
>>> > Angelos
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 3:20 PM Astrid Emde (OSGeo)
>>> > <astrid_emde at osgeo.org> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> Hello all,
>>> >>
>>> >> I am preparing the USB-Stick production and Philipp (my collegue)
>>> >> and I
>>> >> tried it with the beta3 iso.
>>> >> We wanted to work on a solution with dd to be able to make mass
>>> >> production with 10 port usb3 hubs (Alex and I will bring them to
>>> >> Dar).
>>> >>
>>> >> But at the moemnt we failed. Sticks are not bootable.
>>> >>
>>> >> This was our workflow:
>>> >>
>>> >> # 1. create img from a stick that was created with the usbcreator
>>> >> (usb-creator-gtk)
>>> >> sudo dd if=/dev/sdd
>>> >> of=~/Dokumente/Schulungssticks/usbiso/osgeo12beta3.img bs=8M &&
>>> >> sync
>>> >>
>>> >> # then 2.
>>> >> sudo dd if=~/Dokumente/Schulungssticks/usbiso/osgeo12beta3.img
>>> >> of=/dev/sdd bs=8M status=progress; sync
>>> >>
>>> >> But the problem is, that only one pratition will be created (only
>>> >> the
>>> >> data partition and not the efi partition) - all 16 GB. And then the
>>> >> stick does not boot.
>>> >>
>>> >> * does not boot with uefi mode
>>> >> * does not boot with legacy mode
>>> >>
>>> >> I send 2 screenshots
>>> >> * result_from_usbcreator_partition_good_bootable
>>> >> https://imagebin.ca/v/4COCH6SEE7gH [1]
>>> >> * result_from_dd_only_one_partition_not_bootable
>>> >> https://imagebin.ca/v/4COCg53WPHj7 [2]
>>> >>
>>> >> If we do not find a solution with dd we can always use the
>>> >> usb-creator-gtk to create the sticks.
>>> >>
>>> >> Any idea for a solution?
>>> >>
>>> >> Astrid
>>> >>
>>> >> --
>>> >>
>>> >> -------------------------------------------------------------
>>> >> Astrid Emde
>>> >> OSGeo Board Member and OSGeo Secretary
>>> >> Open Source Geospatial Foundation
>>> >> https://www.osgeo.org/member/astrid-emde/ [3]
>>> >> astrid_emde at osgeo.org
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>>> >
>>> > --
>>> >
>>> > Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
>>> > OSGeo Charter Member
>>> > http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos [5]
>>> >
>>> > Links:
>>> > ------
>>> > [1] https://imagebin.ca/v/4COCH6SEE7gH
>>> > [2] https://imagebin.ca/v/4COCg53WPHj7
>>> > [3] https://www.osgeo.org/member/astrid-emde/
>>> > [4] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/osgeolive
>>> > [5] http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos
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>>
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