Hi Keith, > 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.
Ok, I agree this is easier with the script! > 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. The problem is that the machine on which it hangs even doesn't boot its own BIOS with the DVD. I don't know if this is due to a buggy BIOS or something wrong in the DVD. As it really did not seem a trivial issue, we found a workaround but did not want to spend time in analyzing the issue (we probably haven't the skills anyway). > 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. Yes I know. I really have no explanation, I even tried to build the isohybrid months later in case something wrong would have been fixed in the meanwhile. But I got the same behavior. I can't tell whether Debian Live is using the same tricks as the standard Debian DVD's, or Xubuntu, Mint and so, to make a DVD writable with dd. I posted on the list debian-live and didn't get a real answer for my issue. Just that isohybrid is a trick and cannot then be considered as 100% reliable… > I haven't given up on you yet, but others will. USB keys are cheap, > popular, and so much faster than DVDs. I agree, this why DoudouLinux ships the tool to make the USB media. As we now have 43 languages, it was not thinkable for us to keep proposing both ISO's and USB images for each language. I don't remember if we have clearly explained on our download page that ISO can't be used with dd-like tools, do you? > In fact, maybe you can just push your stuff into Debian, and just let > me use the standard Debian installs and builds? You mean integrating our packages into Debian? This work should start within months. We had a meeting after my conference on Saturday with several people interested in pushing DoudouLinux into Debian. Andreas Tille also told me there should be around 10 developers interested in reviving Debian Junior using our work. This is great news for our project because we can't afford the necessary time for such operation, our development team is too small. -- Cheers, JM.
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