Can you guys provide additional details on how to "boot and install" from a live image off a USB stick onto another USB stick?
A) Which live image should be installed in initial USB thumb drive? (LiveCD or LiveUSB) I currently have "moblin-netbook-core-developer-alpha2-20090311" and used UNetbootin to copy/burn image into my USB thumb drive. B) How should the Live Image be burned on initial USB thumb drive? (In windows only UNetBootin works for me) C) What boot option should I select to boot from initial USB on my netbook? (netbook has windows/xp on HD (c: drive) which I want to keep) D) When and to what grub.conf file should I add "rootdelay=10" (only see /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/boot/grub.conf running off live image boot) E) At what point should I modify /etc/fstab? Should /dev/root entry be changed? If so what should it look like? It now has "/dev/root on / type ext3 (rw,noatime)" or should a new entry "rootfs" be added to the filesystem table configuration. If so, how should the new entry look like? F) Also at what point I should connect (make available) the USB thumb drive for the Moblin installation target? Your help is greatly appreciated. BTW: Very good info is flowing on the Moblin project, keep up the good work. Thanks, Eli PS: My netbook BIOS is set to boot off USB drive. -----Original Message----- From: Hernandez, Eli Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 6:55 PM To: Wang, Jing J; Tzeng, Tonny; [email protected] Subject: RE: Developer Moblin2 image Tonny, Jing, Thanks for the advise I will install Moblin2 to USB key and will let you know how it goes. Eli -----Original Message----- From: Wang, Jing J Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 5:57 PM To: Tzeng, Tonny; Hernandez, Eli; [email protected] Subject: RE: Developer Moblin2 image Talking about Moblin installation to another USB, I am making one with Vivan's help. In my case, in addition to the tweaks as Tonny said, I updated "root=" from "/dev/sdc3" to "/dev/sdb3". It is based on what many disks on your target platform. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tzeng, Tonny Sent: 2009年4月21日 8:41 To: Hernandez, Eli; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Moblin Dev] Developer Moblin2 image Hi Eli, Moblin supports two types of Live images - LiveCD and LiveUSB, only LiveUSB images have persistent (i.e. overlay) capability, and it sounds the pre-built development image is a LiveCD image, so you may need to install to your local hard drive to make any changes. The "Boot and Install" to another USB stick or external USB disks are not supported at the moment, however you could still workaround it by installing to a USB key and adding 'rootdelay=x" (where x is the delay time in seconds, in my case, I use 10) to the kernel command line in grub.conf, and edit the rootfs in the /etc/fstab to the correct device manually to boot it successfully from a USB based device. FYI. Best Regards, Tonny -----Original Message----- From: Hernandez, Eli Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 1:44 AM To: Tzeng, Tonny; [email protected] Subject: RE: Developer Moblin2 image Tonny, thanks. Looks like any changes to Live Image for Moblin2 are not persistent - do not see dev changes/setup after boot. Is there a Live image which will take in and make changes persist across boots? Another question I have is whether a LIVE image from USB can "boot and Install" to another USB stick? Thanks, Eli -----Original Message----- From: Tzeng, Tonny Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 12:08 AM To: Hernandez, Eli; [email protected] Subject: RE: Developer Moblin2 image Hi Eli, You could install the development image as a starting point as most of the build tools and libraries are there. Please reference the Moblin SDK page http://moblin.org/documentation/moblin-sdk for more detail instructions. FYI. Best Regards, Tonny -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Hernandez, Eli Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 4:43 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Moblin Dev] Developer Moblin2 image Hello All, I'm new to Moblin and would like to start developing Clutter based UI utilities; i.e. Microphone off/on button, custom progress indicator, others. Can anyone please advise what will be most appropriate dev env to start with? Also is there a Moblin2 image to get which would include such dev env? (e.g. gcc compiler, libs, plugins, etc.) Thanks Eli _______________________________________________ Moblin dev Mailing List [email protected] To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: https://lists.moblin.org/mailman/listinfo/dev or your user account on http://moblin.org once logged in. 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