[Hamara-devel] writing hamara images, linux, windows, mac, some ideas and a bug.

[shirish]

Hi all,

See https://project.hamaralinux.org/work_packages/31

Now there are three platforms to work through :-

a. GNU/Linux
b. MS-Windows
c. Mac OS

The first thing that we need is a current .iso image. Because we don't 
have that, for now I am using the current debian stable (8.0.1) which 
was released just couple of weeks back.

For GNU/Linux we could use 
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.html.en

I am trying out the different methods they have shared therein and would 
report on progress in the coming days

The debian mini.iso worked great, if there is a similar hamara-mini.iso 
would love to test that.

The simplest

$cp debian.iso /dev/sdb (in my case) worked at least in the case of the 
mini.iso

I am hoping it might be the same with the netinstall .iso image (which 
I'm downloading for quite sometime) as well whose iso content list I 
shared today.

There is lots of ways and use-cases that could be covered in usb-drive, 
one of the obvious use-cases that the instructions above do not take 
into account is when you want to have multiple partitions and you want 
the image in only one partition and the rest are to be usable under more 
than one Operating System (FAT16,FAT32,NTFS,ExFAT etc.)

Anybody could write about the MS-Windows and MAC OS because I wouldn't 
be touching them at all.

Even in GNU/Linux there might be some GUI usb image creation, writing 
tools which could be shared. I haven't found any in Debian (so far) but 
the search continues. There are some few use-cases I would like to work 
on and also get some queries that I have (now that I'm looking into it) 
have some answers.

Did find a bug which is worryable if we don't have a workaround for that

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=725417

Rest till later.
-- 
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal,
Community Lead,
Hamaralinux.org