[SoaS] Mango Lassi USB Boot issue

[Frederick Grose]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Rajiv Bhushan <rajiv.bhushan at gmail.com>wrote:

>
>
> Tom,
>
> Since I did not wish to go through the chores of installing "Virtual Box"
> and then running Fedora in it, I decided to burn a Sugar Mango Lassi CD, and
> then to use livecd-iso-to-disk
>
> As per the instructions, I booted up the CD, loaded Sugar, went to terminal
> activity, became root, and changed directory to /LiveOS
>
> So far so good.
>
> I executed the following command as stated in the instructions -- the USB
> Flash Drive was in /dev/sdc1
>
> ./livecd-iso-to-disk --reset-mbr --overlay-size-mb 300 --home-size-mb 175
> --delete-home --unencrypted-home /dev/live /dev/sdc1
>
> The system came back promptly with the livecd-iso-to-disk usage options
>
> In other words, the options I was passing to the program were incorrect!
>
> when I did a ls /dev
>
> I did not find /dev/live listed. I did see a /dev/cdrom listed, but no
> /dev/live
>
> In other words, where is the iso source, that is supposed to be copied to
> the Flash drive?
>

A symbolic link connecting /dev/live to /dev/sr0 was a standard LiveOS
feature that failed to make it into SoaS Mango Lassi.

You can use the /dev/cdrom symbolic link or /dev/sr0 directly.

I will update the wiki.

Thanks for testing!            --Fred
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