On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:11:08AM -0500, Christian Schaller wrote:
Yeah, liveusb-creator is pretty nice and I agree it should probably
be the default download, although I guess we
want instructions for Windows/Mac users too. I assume there are freeware tools out there
for Windows/Mac we can point
people too?
As the author and sole developer of said tool, the thought of making it
the default download causes me a little bit of anxiety. Here are some
things to keep in mind:
• It's almost always out of sync with the livecd-iso-to-disk script,
which is more actively maintained.
• It'll pull in PyQt4 & friends
• Mac support is possible, but has yet to be implemented.
https://github.com/lmacken/liveusb-creator/issues/6
• It currently cannot create GPT partition tables on it's own
• It was created as, and continues to be, a weekend side-project of
mine and has never seen the day-to-day maintenance that a 'default' tool
deserves.
Also when I tried using the liveusb-creator I did discover that it
fails horribly if the filesystem on
the USB stick is not vfat. So I will look assigning someone to work on it to somehow
deal
with that case, either through offering to replace the existing filesystem or at least
failing gracefully.
It should work with both vfat and ext filesystems, so that is a bug if it did not.
luke