future f12 test days

psmith johnsmithdoe14 at googlemail.com
Fri Apr 3 16:49:41 UTC 2009


Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Thursday, April 02 2009, psmith said:
>   
>> Jeremy Katz wrote:
>>     
>>> livecd-iso-to-disk is a shell script that should run on basically any
>>> Linux distro with syslinux installed (and people have sent patches to
>>> fix up things, eg, for Ubuntu) and liveusb-creator works on Linux
>>> platforms and Windows.
>>>   
>>>       
>> but sometimes both of those don't work, as i've recently found out with  
>> both the i686 gnome and xfce live f11 beta iso's, livecd-iso-to-disk nor  
>> liveusb-creator create working usb images, though this may be the iso's  
>> themselves that are the problem as previous versions worked with f9 and  
>> f10 iso's :-/
>>     
>
> Unfortunately, the syslinux com32 apis aren't considered stable, so the
> menu modules were calling things not present in older syslinux being
> used to install the bootloader.  I've hacked livecd-iso-to-disk to deal
> with the problem as of yesterday and hopefully liveusb-creator will get
> updated for it as well.
>
> Jeremy
>
>   
thanks for the info jeremy, is this the version of livecd-tools that's 
in rawhide now? or is it in F10 updates-testing?

phil




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