Had almost forgotten, did you try using Clonezilla live distro. It uses partclone/partimage/dd which skips zero's during dd operation, and can also do broadcasting (cloning simultaneous to multiple usb drives). Since we're going the clone route it's probably the most efficient method. https://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live.php
Thanks, Alex On 08/16/2018 05:34 AM, Astrid Emde (OSGeo) wrote: > Hello Angelos, > > it is 0.3.3 version on Bionic > > Astrid > > Am 16.08.2018 14:26 schrieb Angelos Tzotsos: >> Thanks for reporting Astrid. >> Can you please provide the usbcreator version you use? Is it from >> Bionic or from previous Ubuntu version? >> >> Best, >> Angelos >> >> On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 3:20 PM Astrid Emde (OSGeo) >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> I am preparing the USB-Stick production and Philipp (my collegue) >>> and I >>> tried it with the beta3 iso. >>> We wanted to work on a solution with dd to be able to make mass >>> production with 10 port usb3 hubs (Alex and I will bring them to >>> Dar). >>> >>> But at the moemnt we failed. Sticks are not bootable. >>> >>> This was our workflow: >>> >>> # 1. create img from a stick that was created with the usbcreator >>> (usb-creator-gtk) >>> sudo dd if=/dev/sdd >>> of=~/Dokumente/Schulungssticks/usbiso/osgeo12beta3.img bs=8M && >>> sync >>> >>> # then 2. >>> sudo dd if=~/Dokumente/Schulungssticks/usbiso/osgeo12beta3.img >>> of=/dev/sdd bs=8M status=progress; sync >>> >>> But the problem is, that only one pratition will be created (only >>> the >>> data partition and not the efi partition) - all 16 GB. And then the >>> stick does not boot. >>> >>> * does not boot with uefi mode >>> * does not boot with legacy mode >>> >>> I send 2 screenshots >>> * result_from_usbcreator_partition_good_bootable >>> https://imagebin.ca/v/4COCH6SEE7gH [1] >>> * result_from_dd_only_one_partition_not_bootable >>> https://imagebin.ca/v/4COCg53WPHj7 [2] >>> >>> If we do not find a solution with dd we can always use the >>> usb-creator-gtk to create the sticks. >>> >>> Any idea for a solution? >>> >>> Astrid >>> >>> -- >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------- >>> Astrid Emde >>> OSGeo Board Member and OSGeo Secretary >>> Open Source Geospatial Foundation >>> https://www.osgeo.org/member/astrid-emde/ [3] >>> [email protected] >>> _______________________________________________ >>> osgeolive mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/osgeolive [4] >> >> -- >> >> Angelos Tzotsos, PhD >> OSGeo Charter Member >> http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos [5] >> >> Links: >> ------ >> [1] https://imagebin.ca/v/4COCH6SEE7gH >> [2] https://imagebin.ca/v/4COCg53WPHj7 >> [3] https://www.osgeo.org/member/astrid-emde/ >> [4] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/osgeolive >> [5] http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos >> >> _______________________________________________ >> osgeolive mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/osgeolive > _______________________________________________ > osgeolive mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/osgeolive _______________________________________________ osgeolive mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/osgeolive
