Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: usb-creator
Hi,
I've made a little patch that makes usb-creator accept my CompactFlash
card. My ThinkPad T61 doesn't have a CF slot, but it does have a PCMCIA
slot, and I'm using my CF card in an adapter that inserts into the
laptop. I wanted to try to install Ubuntu on a 1GB CF card, but the
device didn't show up as a selectable target, even though Ubuntu does
detect and even auto-mount it.
So I looked around in the Python sources and came up with a little patch
which seems to work on my PCMCIA-mounted 1GB CF card. That is, usb-
creator lets me select the CF card (formatted with one large FAT16
partition) and proceed installation as usual.
I was hoping my ThinkPad X30 would boot from this CF card, but
unfortunately it won't, so this whole operation was perhaps just a waste
of time =)
Anyway here's the patch!
A note: I edited the patch by hand afterwards, because I'd messed up
the names of the two source trees, so it probably won't work. Still,
it's really easy to understand and fix -- I simply added the pcmcia bus
check:
diff -Naur /usr/share/pyshared/usbcreator/backend.py
/usr/share/pyshared/usbcreator-with-pcmcia-support/backend.py
--- /usr/share/pyshared/usbcreator/backend.py 2009-04-06 23:26:29.000000000
+0200
+++ /usr/share/pyshared/usbcreator-with-pcmcia-support/backend.py
2009-04-06 23:25:05.000000000 +0200
@@ -354,8 +354,7 @@
d = dbus.Interface(dev_obj, 'org.freedesktop.Hal.Device')
if d.GetProperty('storage.drive_type') != 'disk':
continue
- if d.GetProperty('storage.bus') == 'usb' and \
+ if d.GetProperty('storage.bus') == 'usb' or
d.GetProperty('storage.bus') == 'pcmcia' and \
d.GetProperty('storage.removable'):
if d.GetProperty('block.is_volume'):
if d.GetProperty('volume.fstype') == 'vfat':
** Affects: usb-creator (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: cf pcmcia
--
CF cards unsupported
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/356633
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