Hi! I saw your manual process for making a USB key and thought it was too much work. I'll try to force install your script and see what happens.
I can recommend you looking into the hangs at some point and seeing if you can fix them or somehow work around the problem. Offering a standard bootable image for a USB key will make it easier for people to try you out. I've been playing with a bunch of distros in the last few days: the latest Xubuntu, Mint Xfce and Debian 7. For every one but yours, I could use the standard dd command or ImageWriter, a GUI that ships with my Mint-Debian computer. I haven't given up on you yet, but others will. USB keys are cheap, popular, and so much faster than DVDs. In fact, maybe you can just push your stuff into Debian, and just let me use the standard Debian installs and builds? -Keith On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Jean-Michel Philippe <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello, > > > I watched the interesting Debconf talk about Doudou linux and tried to > > get it installed on a computer. > > Thanks for your interest :). > > > I did the usual dd if=XXX of=YYY but it didn't work. (On reboot, I > > tell my Lenovo to boot to the USB key, but it apparently fails and > > then boots to the hard drive.) I wonder if your iso is missing > > something? > > The ISO is just an ISO, not an USB disk image too, it won't boot after a > dd copy. > > > I tried to use your liveusb-writer, but it had unsatisfied > > dependencies regarding grub splash images. > > Weird. Just try to force installation without checking dependencies. The > script liveusb-write should not be annoyed by the missing package > (artwork indeed I assume). Or download the missing package from our > repository: > > http://debian.doudoulinux.org/pkglist.php > > I should fix the package dependencies… > > > It would be really nice if the standard dd command would work as it > > does for other Debian distributions. > > We tried the Debian Live isohybrid system that is probably used on > Debian CD's and, for an unknown reason, live CD's made some computers > hang immediately, at the BIOS boot level. Moreover writing the image > onto USB key didn't help much on these computers, the live USB media > hanged a bit later during the Linux boot process. Finally I decided to > forget isohybrid, offer ISO images that are just for CD's (DVD's for > instance), and write a tool that takes benefit of the ability of Grub2 > to boot an ISO image from any media. > > Alternatively, if you don't want to (or can't) use our tool > liveusb-write, you can make the USB media manually, as indicated on our > blog: > > > http://blog.doudoulinux.org/post/2013/02/17/Booting-a-DoudouLinux-ISO-from-an-USB-key > > Hope this help. > > NB: register our mailing list first to be able to post without needing > moderation. > > -- > Cheers, > JM. > >
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