[oi-dev] Mate is here (as well as new test ISOs)

[Jim Klimov]

18 августа 2016 г. 3:51:39 CEST, Michael Kruger <makruger2000 at gmail.com> пишет:
>On 08/16/16 11:10 AM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote:
>> Hello, people.
>>
>> I wanted to announce availability of Mate some time ago, but there 
>> were some issues, especially when I tried to build Mate Live CD.
>
>Hi Alp,
>
>I ran into some issues writing the OI_GUI_experimental.usb when using 
>the old 'usbcopy' script found in the slimsource repo.
>
>See: http://pastebin.com/ZxxH6Pfe
>
>Here is another where it's working correctly (but with 
>OI-hipster-gui-20160421.usb from the April 2016 release): 
>http://pastebin.com/cABQ92t0
>
>And I think I might know why....
>
>I just finished reading the Distrowatch news blurb about your Mate 
>announcement on www.openindiana.org.
>So, I went and read it and learned we can now use plain old DD to 
>created these without the need for the 1G/2G headers.
>
>Based on this new method for writing images to USB drives, I presume
>the 
>old usbcopy script will no longer work.
>And I suppose the old Windows based OpenSolaris USB Creator tool will
>no 
>longer work either.
>
>If this is true, then would it be safe to assume generic Windows and 
>Linux USB creation tools should now work?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Michael
>
>
>
>
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As a random idea: there are several variants of 'dd' for windows, so if you have time and chance to try and document any success - would be cool ;)

Jim
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