My report on Quirky 6.0

[charlie6]

Hi,
making a new trial, here are all the command line comments:

# sh ./install-quirky-to-drive.sh

This script will install Quirky to an entire drive, and make it bootable
with the Syslinux boot manager, for any x86 PC.
The intention is to install to pluggable memory drives such as USB Flash
sticks and SD-cards. The entire drive is erased, so take off any files that
you want to keep.
The script will ask questions at each step, and will offer a choice of
drives to install to, but of course it comes down to you to make an intelligent
choice and not erase your PCs internal hard drive!
This script should work when running any Linux distribution, however, it
works best when running a Puppy Linux or Puppy Linux-derivative, as Puppy has,
in my opinion, many superior utilities. However, this script will check for
existence or otherwise of those utilities and downgrade appropriately, or
abort if a missing utility is essential.

Press ENTER key to continue (CTRL-C to abort):

1 quirky-6.0.1.usfs.xz

Type number of image file: 1
...ok, have chosen quirky-6.0.1.usfs.xz

Testing integrity of compressed file, please wait...

Plug in a USB Flash drive, 2GB size, or greater, right now.
Also, please be sure that it is unmounted.
Note, 2GB is sufficient, however for a satisfactory ongoing experience
using Quirky, it is recommended to use a 4GB or greater drive. If you intend
to keep using this installation on a daily basis, to allow for plenty of
package installations, upgrades, downloads, etc., a much bigger drive is
recommended, at least 8GB.

WARNING: Many Linux distros will auto-mount a drive when it is plugged
in. You will have to unmount it BEFORE CONTINUING!!!
(if you are unsure about this, don't worry, the script will
check again later, after you have chosen the drive)

Have you plugged in the drive? Then press ENTER key:

These are all of the drives found in your PC:
sda|drive|ATA SAMSUNG SP20A1H
sdb|usbdrv| USB Flash Memory
sdc|usbdrv| USB Flash Memory
sdd|usbdrv|ST3300822A
sr0|optical|TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1712
sr1|optical|PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-116D

Choose the drive to install to...
1 sda
2 sdb
3 sdc
4 sdd
5 sr0
6 sr1

Type a number from left column: 3
...ok, have chosen sdc


Uncompressing quirky-6.0.1.usfs.xz to quirky-6.0.1.usfs...

Final sanity check: 'sdc' is correct? (ENTER if OK, CTRL-C abort):

Some preliminaries on the sdc...
Size of drive=7628MB
Zeroizing first 20MB and last 20MB of drive...
5+0 records in
5+0 records out
20971520 bytes (21 MB) copied, 2,30354 s, 9,1 MB/s

Creating 16MB FAT-16 first partition...
0+1 records in
0+1 records out
410 bytes (410 B) copied, 0,0165357 s, 24,8 kB/s
mkdosfs 3.0.13 (30 Jun 2012)
/dev/sdc1: No such file or directory
Installing syslinux in 1st partition, sdc1...
Usage: syslinux [-sfr][-d directory][-o offset] device
Creating 2nd partition, size 7304MB...

Please choose whether to create a ext2, ext4, of f2fs filesystem in the
second partition. For Flash media, f2fs is very highly recommended.

1 f2fs
2 ext2
3 ext4

Type a number from left column: 3
...ok, have chosen ext4

Creating ext4 in 2nd partition...
mke2fs 1.42.5 (29-Jul-2012)
Filesystem label=quirky2
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks
467712 inodes, 1869824 blocks
0 blocks (0.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
Maximum filesystem blocks=1916796928
58 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
8064 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632

Allocating group tables: done
Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (32768 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done

...done
mount: warning: mntpt seems to be mounted read-only.

Populating 1st partition, sdc1...
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc1,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so


Error, failed to mount first partition, sdc1. Aborting
#

and when selecting f2fs format:

# sh ./install-quirky-to-drive.sh

This script will install Quirky to an entire drive, and make it bootable
with the Syslinux boot manager, for any x86 PC.
The intention is to install to pluggable memory drives such as USB Flash
sticks and SD-cards. The entire drive is erased, so take off any files that
you want to keep.
The script will ask questions at each step, and will offer a choice of
drives to install to, but of course it comes down to you to make an intelligent
choice and not erase your PCs internal hard drive!
This script should work when running any Linux distribution, however, it
works best when running a Puppy Linux or Puppy Linux-derivative, as Puppy has,
in my opinion, many superior utilities. However, this script will check for
existence or otherwise of those utilities and downgrade appropriately, or
abort if a missing utility is essential.

Press ENTER key to continue (CTRL-C to abort):

1 quirky-6.0.1.usfs.xz

Type number of image file: 1
...ok, have chosen quirky-6.0.1.usfs.xz

Testing integrity of compressed file, please wait...

Plug in a USB Flash drive, 2GB size, or greater, right now.
Also, please be sure that it is unmounted.
Note, 2GB is sufficient, however for a satisfactory ongoing experience
using Quirky, it is recommended to use a 4GB or greater drive. If you intend
to keep using this installation on a daily basis, to allow for plenty of
package installations, upgrades, downloads, etc., a much bigger drive is
recommended, at least 8GB.

WARNING: Many Linux distros will auto-mount a drive when it is plugged
in. You will have to unmount it BEFORE CONTINUING!!!
(if you are unsure about this, don't worry, the script will
check again later, after you have chosen the drive)

Have you plugged in the drive? Then press ENTER key:

These are all of the drives found in your PC:
sda|drive|ATA SAMSUNG SP20A1H
sdb|usbdrv| USB Flash Memory
sdc|usbdrv| USB Flash Memory
sdd|usbdrv|ST3300822A
sr0|optical|TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1712
sr1|optical|PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-116D

Choose the drive to install to...
1 sda
2 sdb
3 sdc
4 sdd
5 sr0
6 sr1

Type a number from left column: 3
...ok, have chosen sdc


Uncompressing quirky-6.0.1.usfs.xz to quirky-6.0.1.usfs...

Final sanity check: 'sdc' is correct? (ENTER if OK, CTRL-C abort):

Some preliminaries on the sdc...
Size of drive=7628MB
Zeroizing first 20MB and last 20MB of drive...
5+0 records in
5+0 records out
20971520 bytes (21 MB) copied, 2,1867 s, 9,6 MB/s

Creating 16MB FAT-16 first partition...
0+1 records in
0+1 records out
410 bytes (410 B) copied, 0,00448787 s, 91,4 kB/s
mkdosfs 3.0.13 (30 Jun 2012)
Installing syslinux in 1st partition, sdc1...
Usage: syslinux [-sfr][-d directory][-o offset] device
Creating 2nd partition, size 7304MB...

Please choose whether to create a ext2, ext4, of f2fs filesystem in the
second partition. For Flash media, f2fs is very highly recommended.

1 f2fs
2 ext2
3 ext4

Type a number from left column: 1
...ok, have chosen f2fs

Creating f2fs in 2nd partition...

F2FS-tools: mkfs.f2fs Ver: 1.2.0 (2013-10-25)

Info: Label = quirky2
Info: sector size = 512
Info: total sectors = 14958592 (in 512bytes)
Info: zone aligned segment0 blkaddr: 512
Info: Discarding device
Info: This device doesn't support TRIM
Info: format successful
...done
mount: warning: mntpt seems to be mounted read-only.

Populating 1st partition, sdc1...
PARTUUID of 2nd partition written to syslinux.cfg in 1st partition.
...done

Populating 2nd partition, sdc2...
mount: unknown filesystem type 'f2fs'

Error, failed to mount second partition, sdc2. Aborting
#

[smokey01]

Thanks jamesbond. I'm sure a few others will find this useful too.

[ETP]

Hi charlie6,
Ah! You have produced a nice Christmas tree decoration there!
Things start to fall apart at this point:

Code: Select all

mkdosfs 3.0.13 (30 Jun 2012) 
/dev/sdc1: No such file or directory 
Installing syslinux in 1st partition, sdc1... 
Usage: syslinux [-sfr][-d directory][-o offset] device 
Creating 2nd partition, size 7304MB... 

So no file system is created on the 16 Meg Fat partition. Before suspecting a bug in the install script you may wish to try the following:

1. Use Gparted in a working Pup to create a new partition table then a single FAT32 partition spanning all of the target stick. Then run chkdsk or its equivalent on the stick to check that you have a clean target to work with.

2. Try running the script again but first unplug those other sticks (sdb & sdd) so that the only stick in the system is the clean target stick.

3. If that fails try with another stick or card.

If things go well this is what you should see on the first partition. (Plus one hidden file)

[charlie6]

Hi EDP,
thanks for bringing lights to my Xtmas tree ...

Good news:

here are some more stuffs:
- after perfoming your recommandations:
and even changed may USB key to a 4GB one, no success
so i have guessed the problem could be present in wheezy-3.5.2.11 which does'nt have f2fs stuffs present (i had to bring mkfs.f2fs and libf2fs ewtracted from quirky-6.0.1.sfs ... as i assumed they could be distro-independent)

- now installing from raring-3.9.9.2 which has f2fs stuffs, the USB memory is reported to be pouplated.

sh ./install-quirky-to-drive.sh
...
This script will install Quirky Creating 16MB FAT-16 first partition...
0+1 records in
0+1 records out
410 bytes (410 B) copied, 0,0141407 s, 29,0 kB/s
mkdosfs 3.0.14 (23 Jan 2023)
Installing syslinux in 1st partition, sdc1...
Usage: syslinux [-sfr][-d directory][-o offset] device
Creating 2nd partition, size 3704MB...

Please choose whether to create a ext2, ext4, of f2fs filesystem in the
second partition. For Flash media, f2fs is very highly recommended.

1 f2fs
2 ext2
3 ext4

Type a number from left column: 1
...ok, have chosen f2fs

Creating f2fs in 2nd partition...

F2FS-tools: mkfs.f2fs Ver: 1.1.0 (2013-07-04)

Info: Label = quirky2
Info: sector size = 512
Info: total sectors = 7585792 (in 512bytes)
Info: zone aligned segment0 blkaddr: 512
Info: format successful
...done
mount: warning: mntpt seems to be mounted read-only.

Populating 1st partition, sdc1...
PARTUUID of 2nd partition written to syslinux.cfg in 1st partition.
...done

Populating 2nd partition, sdc2...
Copying quirky-6.0.1.usfs to /mnt/sdc2/audit/, for audit-trail...

That's it, sdc is now ready to boot from!

If you want to create a copy of the drive, as an image file, for deployment
to other users, the total size is 1M + 16M + 7M + 3704
which is: 3728MB
An image can be created like this:
# dd if=/dev/sdc bs=4M count=932 | xz --compress --stdout -9 - > quirky-6.0.1-4gb.img.xz

If you do not want to do this, just press ENTER to end script,
otherwise, (leaving drive plugged in) press any char then ENTER:

now i must leave ...more results in a next post
Cheers, charlie

[ETP]

Hi charlie6,
That’s great news. Barry did in his release notes state “must be running a reasonably recent Linux distribution

[charlie6]

Hi EDP,

...more results in a next post

back again ... no success
booting on a Dell620 with BIOS set for USB boot:
(it boots from other USB configured using «BootFlash Install Puppy to USB»)

This is not a bootable disk. Please insert a bootable floppy ... balblibla...

GParted reports sdb1 to have the boot flag. I then used GParted to remove, and afterwards again add the boot flag.
Rebooted without success: again the same above message upon boot.
???
Here is the sysconfig in sdb1:

default quirky
display boot.msg
prompt 1
timeout 50

F1 boot.msg
F2 help.msg

label quirky
kernel vmlinuz
append root=PARTUUID=525506fb-02 rootwait rw

Thanks for any help.
Charlie

[ETP]

Hi charlie6,
This Pup will just not come to heel! I am guessing that the hidden syslinux bootloader file (ldlinux.sys) has not made it onto the FAT16 partition. If so, there is definitely something amiss with the install script. All is not lost however if on the second partition all of the directories and their contents as shown in the attached screenshot are present and you are willing to try the install method that I described in my first post in this thread.
As a quick check, without making any changes or copying any files, just flash the image onto a stick and see if your bios can get to the boot menu. If it does, select shutdown and think about what you want to do.

[charlie6]

Hi ETP,
many thanks for your time !
There is no .ldlinux.sys file present on the flash key.

Hi charlie6,...
As a quick check, without making any changes or copying any files, just flash the image onto a stick ...

How to «flash the image»; and which image ..?
Regards, Charlie

[ETP]

Hi ETP,
many thanks for your time !
There is no .ldlinux.sys file present on the flash key.

Hi charlie6,...
As a quick check, without making any changes or copying any files, just flash the image onto a stick ...

How to «flash the image»; and which image ..?
Regards, Charlie

Please see this post including the EDIT at the end.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 369#745369

[BarryK]

Hi @BarryK

Thanks for this project. New refinements as this evolution depicts.

Questions
Understanding the work which has been done for the distro's installation to Flash/HDD units, will there be a DVD/Blu-ray (ISO) for distro's RAM-only operations produced?

Any insights on this versus the past would be helpful if the direction in this area is changing. For example, is it true that session files have no play in this current incarnation of Quirky?

Thanks and have a Happy Holiday Season...Everyone
Edit: 2nd question.

No, there will never be an iso.

That's right, no session files.

[BarryK]

Hi,
thanks Barry for this quirky-6.0.1 !
...struggling to get it booting from a USB key ...
could someone give a link where to download syslinux-4.05-86.pet?
many thanks in advance and...
* * * Happy Xtmas and New Year ! * * *
Charli

The same place you download Quirky 6.0.1 from:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/quirky ... rky-6.0.1/

[BarryK]

Any chance we can boot to ram? Back in the 2.0 puppylinux days I was able to take a full install and compress that image into initrd.gz and do a standard boot with kernel and initrd using whatever frugal or my case testing multisession loader code.

No, Quirky6 is only designed as a full install. No initrd.gz either.

[BarryK]

Hi,
making a new trial, here are all the command line comments:

# sh ./install-quirky-to-drive.sh

This script will install Quirky to an entire drive, and make it bootable
with the Syslinux boot manager, for any x86 PC.
The intention is to install to pluggable memory drives such as USB Flash
sticks and SD-cards. The entire drive is erased, so take off any files that
you want to keep.
The script will ask questions at each step, and will offer a choice of
drives to install to, but of course it comes down to you to make an intelligent
choice and not erase your PCs internal hard drive!
This script should work when running any Linux distribution, however, it
works best when running a Puppy Linux or Puppy Linux-derivative, as Puppy has,
in my opinion, many superior utilities. However, this script will check for
existence or otherwise of those utilities and downgrade appropriately, or
abort if a missing utility is essential.

Press ENTER key to continue (CTRL-C to abort):

1 quirky-6.0.1.usfs.xz

Type number of image file: 1
...ok, have chosen quirky-6.0.1.usfs.xz

Testing integrity of compressed file, please wait...

Plug in a USB Flash drive, 2GB size, or greater, right now.
Also, please be sure that it is unmounted.
Note, 2GB is sufficient, however for a satisfactory ongoing experience
using Quirky, it is recommended to use a 4GB or greater drive. If you intend
to keep using this installation on a daily basis, to allow for plenty of
package installations, upgrades, downloads, etc., a much bigger drive is
recommended, at least 8GB.

WARNING: Many Linux distros will auto-mount a drive when it is plugged
in. You will have to unmount it BEFORE CONTINUING!!!
(if you are unsure about this, don't worry, the script will
check again later, after you have chosen the drive)

Have you plugged in the drive? Then press ENTER key:

These are all of the drives found in your PC:
sda|drive|ATA SAMSUNG SP20A1H
sdb|usbdrv| USB Flash Memory
sdc|usbdrv| USB Flash Memory
sdd|usbdrv|ST3300822A
sr0|optical|TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1712
sr1|optical|PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-116D

Choose the drive to install to...
1 sda
2 sdb
3 sdc
4 sdd
5 sr0
6 sr1

Type a number from left column: 3
...ok, have chosen sdc


Uncompressing quirky-6.0.1.usfs.xz to quirky-6.0.1.usfs...

Final sanity check: 'sdc' is correct? (ENTER if OK, CTRL-C abort):

Some preliminaries on the sdc...
Size of drive=7628MB
Zeroizing first 20MB and last 20MB of drive...
5+0 records in
5+0 records out
20971520 bytes (21 MB) copied, 2,30354 s, 9,1 MB/s

Creating 16MB FAT-16 first partition...
0+1 records in
0+1 records out
410 bytes (410 B) copied, 0,0165357 s, 24,8 kB/s
mkdosfs 3.0.13 (30 Jun 2012)
/dev/sdc1: No such file or directory
Installing syslinux in 1st partition, sdc1...
Usage: syslinux [-sfr][-d directory][-o offset] device
Creating 2nd partition, size 7304MB...

Please choose whether to create a ext2, ext4, of f2fs filesystem in the
second partition. For Flash media, f2fs is very highly recommended.

1 f2fs
2 ext2
3 ext4

Type a number from left column: 3
...ok, have chosen ext4

Creating ext4 in 2nd partition...
mke2fs 1.42.5 (29-Jul-2012)
Filesystem label=quirky2
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks
467712 inodes, 1869824 blocks
0 blocks (0.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
Maximum filesystem blocks=1916796928
58 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
8064 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632

Allocating group tables: done
Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (32768 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done

...done
mount: warning: mntpt seems to be mounted read-only.

Populating 1st partition, sdc1...
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc1,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so


Error, failed to mount first partition, sdc1. Aborting
#

and when selecting f2fs format:

# sh ./install-quirky-to-drive.sh

This script will install Quirky to an entire drive, and make it bootable
with the Syslinux boot manager, for any x86 PC.
The intention is to install to pluggable memory drives such as USB Flash
sticks and SD-cards. The entire drive is erased, so take off any files that
you want to keep.
The script will ask questions at each step, and will offer a choice of
drives to install to, but of course it comes down to you to make an intelligent
choice and not erase your PCs internal hard drive!
This script should work when running any Linux distribution, however, it
works best when running a Puppy Linux or Puppy Linux-derivative, as Puppy has,
in my opinion, many superior utilities. However, this script will check for
existence or otherwise of those utilities and downgrade appropriately, or
abort if a missing utility is essential.

Press ENTER key to continue (CTRL-C to abort):

1 quirky-6.0.1.usfs.xz

Type number of image file: 1
...ok, have chosen quirky-6.0.1.usfs.xz

Testing integrity of compressed file, please wait...

Plug in a USB Flash drive, 2GB size, or greater, right now.
Also, please be sure that it is unmounted.
Note, 2GB is sufficient, however for a satisfactory ongoing experience
using Quirky, it is recommended to use a 4GB or greater drive. If you intend
to keep using this installation on a daily basis, to allow for plenty of
package installations, upgrades, downloads, etc., a much bigger drive is
recommended, at least 8GB.

WARNING: Many Linux distros will auto-mount a drive when it is plugged
in. You will have to unmount it BEFORE CONTINUING!!!
(if you are unsure about this, don't worry, the script will
check again later, after you have chosen the drive)

Have you plugged in the drive? Then press ENTER key:

These are all of the drives found in your PC:
sda|drive|ATA SAMSUNG SP20A1H
sdb|usbdrv| USB Flash Memory
sdc|usbdrv| USB Flash Memory
sdd|usbdrv|ST3300822A
sr0|optical|TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1712
sr1|optical|PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-116D

Choose the drive to install to...
1 sda
2 sdb
3 sdc
4 sdd
5 sr0
6 sr1

Type a number from left column: 3
...ok, have chosen sdc


Uncompressing quirky-6.0.1.usfs.xz to quirky-6.0.1.usfs...

Final sanity check: 'sdc' is correct? (ENTER if OK, CTRL-C abort):

Some preliminaries on the sdc...
Size of drive=7628MB
Zeroizing first 20MB and last 20MB of drive...
5+0 records in
5+0 records out
20971520 bytes (21 MB) copied, 2,1867 s, 9,6 MB/s

Creating 16MB FAT-16 first partition...
0+1 records in
0+1 records out
410 bytes (410 B) copied, 0,00448787 s, 91,4 kB/s
mkdosfs 3.0.13 (30 Jun 2012)
Installing syslinux in 1st partition, sdc1...
Usage: syslinux [-sfr][-d directory][-o offset] device
Creating 2nd partition, size 7304MB...

Please choose whether to create a ext2, ext4, of f2fs filesystem in the
second partition. For Flash media, f2fs is very highly recommended.

1 f2fs
2 ext2
3 ext4

Type a number from left column: 1
...ok, have chosen f2fs

Creating f2fs in 2nd partition...

F2FS-tools: mkfs.f2fs Ver: 1.2.0 (2013-10-25)

Info: Label = quirky2
Info: sector size = 512
Info: total sectors = 14958592 (in 512bytes)
Info: zone aligned segment0 blkaddr: 512
Info: Discarding device
Info: This device doesn't support TRIM
Info: format successful
...done
mount: warning: mntpt seems to be mounted read-only.

Populating 1st partition, sdc1...
PARTUUID of 2nd partition written to syslinux.cfg in 1st partition.
...done

Populating 2nd partition, sdc2...
mount: unknown filesystem type 'f2fs'

Error, failed to mount second partition, sdc2. Aborting
#

It looks like you need the syslinux 4.05 PET.

[ETP]

A number of people have reported this issue having failed to produce a bootable stick.

The problem surrounds the following block of code in the install script in conjunction with the unknown and variable version of syslinux included in the Pup that they happen to be using to run the script.

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echo "Installing syslinux in 1st partition, ${TARGETDRIVE}${PARTNUM1}..."
if [ "$(syslinux -v 2>&1 | grep -i 'syslinux [23]')" = "" ];then
 syslinux --install /dev/${TARGETDRIVE}${PARTNUM1} #need --install for 4.05.
else
 #syslinux 3.x does not recognise --install option
 syslinux /dev/${TARGETDRIVE}${PARTNUM1}
fi
sync

This uncertainty IMHO, needs to be eliminated. Given that syslinux 4.05 is included in the latest Quirky one possible solution might be to change the order of the script such that the second partition on the stick is populated first. Syslinux 4.05 that then would be present on it could be targeted and used to install the ldlinux.sys on the first partition.
Merry Xmas to all.

[Sage]

.iso
By chance, stumbled upon:
http://bleedux.wordpress.com/2010/11/11 ... img-image/
which describes ccd2iso utility and some of its idio(t!)synchrocies.
Haven't tried it though and there do appear to be some caveats so feedback would bring enormous benefits for the silent majority struggling with the present presentation.

[Ted Dog]

Any chance we can boot to ram? Back in the 2.0 puppylinux days I was able to take a full install and compress that image into initrd.gz and do a standard boot with kernel and initrd using whatever frugal or my case testing multisession loader code.

No, Quirky6 is only designed as a full install. No initrd.gz either.

Is there blocks from doing this or you never plan to support this? Like to try the new offerings but cost of a fast flashdrive and lack of speed with current flashdrives keep me from testing.

[tronkel]

Managed to get Quirky 8.0.1 to install on both a hard-drive partition as well as a USB stick. Sweet.

The install to partition worked first time with the partition formatted to EXT4. My MBR Grub 2 from Debian Wheezy picked up the Quirky partition as an Unknown Linux but booted Quirky perfectly to the desktop. Wonder why Grub 2 couldn't automatically pick up the distro title as it does with all other Linuces.

Installing to a USB wasn't quite as easy as that. On the first attempt I formatted the USB stick to EXT4 and tried ran the script from within Debian Wheezy. This appeared to install OK to the USB stick but wouldn't actually boot due to a syslinux problem. Rethink necessary.

I then decided to run the install2drive script from within the successfully installed Quirky hard-drive partition and also reormatted the USB stick to VFAT instead of EXT4. I then selected f2fs as the file system for the second USB drive partition. Then rebooted fron the USB stick and ..... BINGO!

Christmas present 2013! Thanks Barry

P.S Anyone got Quirky 6.0.1 running using ATI graphics card as yet? Maybe have to wait for a repackaged full XORG from wherever.

[Ted Dog]

.iso
By chance, stumbled upon:
http://bleedux.wordpress.com/2010/11/11 ... img-image/
which describes ccd2iso utility and some of its idio(t!)synchrocies.
Haven't tried it though and there do appear to be some caveats so feedback would bring enormous benefits for the silent majority struggling with the present presentation.

Does not appear to do what we want.. However I did make code using Grub bootloader that takes a full install and burns it into a burnable and boots with cd or dvd but as a harddrive image, not really an iso per say but still worked I used re-write DVD. Found it last time I was cleaning out old puppylinux CD & DVD from protected storage. So its nearby...

[Billtoo]

P.S Anyone got Quirky 6.0.1 running using ATI graphics card as yet? Maybe have to wait for a repackaged full XORG from wherever.

I tried on my netbook and my hp desktop, with the legacy driver on the netbook and the latest driver on the desktop.
It said the cards were supported but it failed to compile the driver, I didn't save the log files.

[Sage]

re. .iso

It sort of worked for me. Got the 0 , 0 error message but an .iso file was produced. Problem was that it refused to burn due to 'unrecognised format' . If BK has no interest perhaps one of our other gurus can offer advice and clues? As a non-SW person I wouldn't begin to know where to look for the answer. My guess is that there is a vast number of folks too timid to put their moniker over the parapet who would really like an .iso. These .img manipulations are way beyond the average punter. Frankly it's not very fair to place this type of offering on the major public announcement board without complete and detailed, step-by-step instructions. Otherwise, circulate amongst friends if it's just a hobby project. In default, could attract cake-and-eat-it syndrome accusations. BK doesn't take well to comment about his strategy, but his work is so useful that it predicates widespread deployment. Retirement doesn't really work as expected, in my experience - of course, I dig my garden, cycle, socialise a lot, etc., etc.,but in fifteen years of freedom I keep up with my own fields and still advise and influence wherever appropriate/possible.