[ubuntu-uk] O2 Joggler: deal

[Tim Powys-Lybbe]

On 20 May at 13:48, Anton Piatek <anton at piatek.co.uk> wrote:

> On 19 May 2010 22:46, Daniel Case <danielcase10 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > A tutorial i made is here for your referance, it should work :)
> .....
> 
> If you are in a hurry, go to http://www.stephenford.org/joggler/ where
> a wget command will get you a 4GB usb image, and a dd command will put
> it on your usb key. Then just plug it in to your joggler and cycle
> power. Incredibly easy to get started with Ubuntu on a Joggler.
> 
> Though I did find gnome really badly suited to the touchscreen, so
> need to think about window managers made more for touchscreens as it
> is very difficult to even double click with a touchscreen... (also
> menu's and similar are incredibly hard to click on unless you make the
> font sizes huge, in which case they just get in the way a lot.. )


I have got stuck again.  With both an 8 GB and a 4 GB stick in the
Joggler, lights flash on the stick when I start the Joggler but after a
minute or so Joggler fires up normally.

Problem 1: the USB sticks:
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The 8 GB stick has no apparent fault as all the files on it can be seen
OK.
The 4 GB stick starts off as 4GB but formatting brings this down to 3.4
GB and this will not hold all of Stephen Ford's image.

Problem 2: Loading Ubuntu to the stick:
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I had originally done this on the 8 GB stick via the Windows program
Disk Imager which made two partitions.

As this had not worked on the Joggler, I then tried following Stephen
Ford's simple instructions from his site.  I unzipped (un-tar, etc) his
file until I was left with this: joggler_unr_9.10_v1.3a.bin

I then wiped the stick and reformatted it.

The problem then came with his command of:
  dd if=joggler_unr_9.10_v1.3a.bin of=<your_own_device> bs=10M count=365
I did not know what <your_own_device>should be translated to.  So I
tried:
  dd if=joggler_unr_9.10_v1.3a.bin of=/dev/sdb1 bs=10M count=365
and got the response:
  dd: opening `/dev/sdb1': Permission denied

My second attempt was with this command:
  dd if=joggler_unr_9.10_v1.3a.bin
  of=/media/C/joggler_unr_9.10_v1.3a.bin bs=10M count=365
and this got the response of:
  365+0 records in
  365+0 records out
  3827302400 bytes (3.8 GB) copied, 707.077 s, 5.4 MB/s

As above, I put the stick in the Joggler and nothing useful resulted on
a reboot.

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