https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article86/burning-usb-image en a blog about Debian and self-hosting Tue, 08 Jan 2013 17:49:00 +0000 PluXml https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article86/burning-usb-image/#c1357667391-1 https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article86/burning-usb-image/#c1357667391-1 Upstream gnome-disks (see Fedora) appears to support saving and restoring disk images. (It also drops LVM/RAID operations, which makes some sense, drops benchmarking... and hides a bunch of stuff inside menus etc... which was a bit of a surprise, but let's not start that thread). Tue, 08 Jan 2013 17:49:00 +0000 Alan https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article86/burning-usb-image/#c1357009009-1 https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article86/burning-usb-image/#c1357009009-1 This really makes perfect sense! I never thought of this, i always pointed people to lili or unetbootin if dd was too difficult. Tue, 01 Jan 2013 02:56:00 +0000 lachlan https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article86/burning-usb-image/#c1356945584-1 https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article86/burning-usb-image/#c1356945584-1 @Tshirtman : Sure there are external tools to do that, but having to install a specific tool for that is just as bad a having to install a specific tool to burn an ISO image to a CD with Windows: the problem of the standard file manager can be worked around, but it still sucks. Mon, 31 Dec 2012 09:19:00 +0000 Tanguy https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article86/burning-usb-image/#c1356945444-1 https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article86/burning-usb-image/#c1356945444-1 There are a number of third-party gui tools to do this, i know ubuntu ship a simple one by default (usb-creator-gtk), i've used another one called multisystem (done by an user of the french ubuntu forums), and i'm pretty sure there are other out there, it may not be in the contextual menu of isos (and that could be fixed), but that doesn't mean it's impossible to use for gui users. Mon, 31 Dec 2012 09:17:00 +0000 Tshirtman https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article86/burning-usb-image/#c1356941917-1 https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article86/burning-usb-image/#c1356941917-1 @Hashem : Thank you. This is of course the right thing to do, but I wanted to make the problem somewhat public before reporting them. And it affects more desktops than just GNOME. @tomás zerolo : Yes, now such a function in a file manager should unmount the device before writing to it of course, and give appropriate warnings, just as the function to burn to a rewritable optical disk does I guess. Mon, 31 Dec 2012 08:18:00 +0000 Tanguy https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article86/burning-usb-image/#c1356935798-1 https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article86/burning-usb-image/#c1356935798-1 This is exacerbated by the fact that the GUIs typically mount the device. Just doing "dd" from a shell while the stick is mounted is... somewhat dangerous. Thanks to Hashem: you did the right thing. Mon, 31 Dec 2012 06:36:00 +0000 tomás zerolo https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article86/burning-usb-image/#c1356922270-1 https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article86/burning-usb-image/#c1356922270-1 I filed a bug for you. Nice suggestion! :) https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=690909 Mon, 31 Dec 2012 02:51:00 +0000 Hashem https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article86/burning-usb-image/#c1356912468-1 https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article86/burning-usb-image/#c1356912468-1 In fact, the time since I’ve last used CD-R (or other optical discs) is about twice the time since I’ve last used a floppy disc. I guess USB sticks just took over. Not bad, especially as their childhood illnesses are by now mostly overcome. Mon, 31 Dec 2012 00:07:00 +0000 mirabilos