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| Cherepon of the Ogdensburg group. Building a live-USB is not terribly difficult, but does require | Cherepon of the Ogdensburg group. Building a live-USB is not terribly difficult, but does require | ||
| a great deal of attention to detail and a lot of tedious busy-work. A draft report on how the 2016 | a great deal of attention to detail and a lot of tedious busy-work. A draft report on how the 2016 | ||
| - | live-USB and its design considerations is | + | live-USB and its design considerations is {{:wiki:dmasterusb.pdf| dmasterusb.pdf}}. |
| + | The bootable ISO file is located on this server at [[http://ottawaenglishdance.org/main/live-image/DMaster.iso | http://ottawaenglishdance.org/main/live-image/DMaster.iso]] | ||
| + | To use the live-USB, download the ISO file. It can actually be "burned" to a DVD (the file is just | ||
| + | a little too large for a CD), then "booted" on a machine with a drive attached (even an external | ||
| + | one). Typically you need to hit F12 or some other key right after switching on to be able to select | ||
| + | the CD/DVD drive as the source. | ||
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| + | To put the system on a USB, I have used Unetbootin software, but there are a number of others. All | ||
| + | have their fans and detractors. I was able to load the USB (formatted FAT32), then use gparted to | ||
| + | shrink the DanceBox partition (I labelled it when formatting) to about 1 GB. Then I created a second | ||
| + | partition (also FAT32) called DMusic and copied dance instructions (plain .txt) and music (.mp3) in | ||
| + | that partition. I did not copy music into the DanceBox partition where there is just 1 sample | ||
| + | text and 1 sample music file. | ||
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| + | All this is relatively straightforward for someone used to formatting and managing disks and storage | ||
| + | devices. However, I fully expect to hear from others by email (nashjc _at_ uottawa.ca). --- //[[nashjc]] 2016/06/24 14:43// | ||
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