[IAEP] Feedback on installing the Windows sugar stick

[Sean Daly]

Many thanks Klaas for reporting the error and proposing a workaround!

Mathieu, could you or someone you know get this info to the LiveUSB
Creator people?

Sebastian, do you think we should update the wiki with this workaround?

thanks

Sean


On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:08 PM, klaas langhout<klaasl at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Quick feedback:
> - using
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Strawberry#Windows_Users
> - did: Download the latest version of Fedora LiveUSB Creator from
> http://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/ and extract it;
>
> The instructions didn't match the current LiveUSB creator.  In specific,
> when I launched the app, no option to format existed but, the download for
> Sugar on a Stick was already there.  It failed to create and, in looking at
> the log file it was because of a UNC path usage that was invalid on Windows
> 7
>
> Z:\liveusb-creator-3.7[1]\liveusb-creator-3.7>type liveusb-creator.log
> tools\7z.exe x "soas-strawberry.iso" -x![BOOT] -y -oE:
> 'liveusb-creator-3.7[1]\liveusb-creator-3.7'
> CMD.EXE was started with the above path as the current directory.
> UNC paths are not supported.  Defaulting to Windows directory.
> The system cannot find the path specified.
>
> I had to manually invoke as: 7z.exe x "..\soas-strawberry.iso" -x![BOOT] -y
> -oE:
>
> Cheers, thanks for puttting this together.
>