[OSGeoLive] OSGeo Live USB

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Good news.

Lets see if that will work on Bionic when it is released :)

Best,
Angelos

On 02/14/2018 08:08 PM, Jim Klassen wrote:
> Thank you!  It appears to have worked for me.  I have tested the
> resulting image under amd64 on BIOS and EFI.  Both boot, and both honor
> the persistence.
>
> For reference, I used the following commands to install this from within
> a VM booted to the OSGeo Live 11 ISO:
>     
>      sudo su
>      apt-add-repository ppa:gcpp-kalxas/ppa-tzotsos
>      apt update
>      apt policy usb-creator-gtk # check the version available in the PPA
>      apt install usb-creator-gtk=0.2.67ubuntu2
> usb-creator-common=0.2.67ubuntu2
>
>
> On 02/14/2018 02:55 AM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
>> Hi Jim,
>>
>> The Ubuntu team switched the way they produce their iso files, so the
>> usb creator application got re-written.
>> Unfortunately the persistence feature was lost in that process.
>>
>> At the beginning of the 10.0 development I ported the previous version
>> of the usb creator tool from 14.04 to 16.04 for testing purposes.
>> https://launchpad.net/~gcpp-kalxas/+archive/ubuntu/ppa-tzotsos/+sourcepub/6744322/+listing-archive-extra
>>
>>
>> This version has the persistence feature but I am not sure it is
>> working as expected.
>>
>> Best,
>> Angelos
>>
>> On 02/12/2018 11:43 PM, Jim Klassen wrote:
>>> I'd like to make an 8GB USB image of OSGeo Live 11 that uses the extra
>>> space on the USB stick for a persistence file.
>>>
>>> Back in the Lubuntu 14.04 days, I used a tool called "Startup Disk
>>> Creator" (a.k.a. usb-creator-gtk) that when run from a system booted to
>>> the OSGeoLive ISO could create a bootable USB with a persistence file
>>> (casper-rw).  It looks like Ubuntu took away the persistence file option
>>> from that tool in 16.04.
>>>
>>> I know I can use dd to copy the .iso to the USB stick and it will work,
>>> but without persistence.  It seems like a step backwards if people loose
>>> all their work every time they reboot.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know how to do make an image with persistence enabled with
>>> OSGeo Live 11?
>>>
>>>
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>>
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