[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Feedback on installing the Windows sugar stick

[Tomeu Vizoso]

(just received this email today, what's going on with the lists?)

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 23:15, Sean Daly<sdaly at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> 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?

Here is the link to their bug tracker:

https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/

Would be good to search if the issue is already tracked and enter a
new one if it isn't.

Regards,

Tomeu

> 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.
>>
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