Image Writer

Any interest in my updates?

Asked by Jeff B

I've made some changes to the code - fixing the bugs that have been reported mostly, as well as some general upgrades.

This project seems pretty dead (no one is being accepted as new developers - bugs aren't being responded to - questions aren't being answered), but I thought I'd offer my changes if any of the moderators are interested in allowing me to submit them.

Either way, thanks for the project - it saved me some time learning how to write files to raw devices on Windows.

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Ianc (ianconradie) said : 		#1

Hello Jeff, I've tried and failed to use imagewriter to create a usb to boot from. Do you have a fix for this? I've tried ChromeOS on my Mac using parallels and it looks great. I' m keen to try this ChromiumOS on an old laptop.

Thanks and regards, Ian

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Jeff B (skydiver38) said : 		#2

I've booted from the usb stick that I've burned, but I haven't done a wide variety of testing. I've burned from Win7 but forget what BIOS I booted it to.... What BIOS are you booting to? You're familiar with setting boot order and all that, right?

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Tobin Davis (gruemaster) said : 		#3

Good news/bad news.

The good news:
I am still taking updates and will merge them into the main trunk after I have tested them.
Test criteria includes reading/writing images from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ (daily-preinstalled and ubuntu-server/daily-preinstalled) in XP (I don't have a Windows7 image yet).

The bad news:
My son who initially wrote this program is busy with work and developing openrpg maker while he prepares to enter Digipen for video game development, and has almost no time to help on this project.

I am willing to work on it as best as I can, but I am a Linux QA Tester, not a Windows developer (I know how to compile and in most cases debug software). But my time is severely limited as I am focusing on Ubuntu Arm QA testing.

That said, if you have patches, either push a personal bzr branch and do a merge request, or file a bug with a patch attached. I will try to pay more attention to these updates, and (with a little luck) push an update out within a month of posting.

Tobin

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Jeff B (skydiver38) said : 		#4

I think I figured out the branch/push thing - my branch is updated, and I requested a review for a merge.

Let me know if I need to do anything else.

For anyone else interested, I put my changes on the branch:
lp:~skydiver38/win32-image-writer/updates

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Jeff B (skydiver38) said : 		#5

glad we've gotten things rolling!