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kapqa

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Registered: 2019-01-02

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(request) including of USBimager

Hello ,

i am kindly requesting including of 1 or 2 package into Devuan
since it is harder to use "mkusb" program on Devuan/Debian nowadys;

have tried several program and they seem function well, and it seems such a program is missing in Devuan?

it is very handy and function without friction;

one is called "USBImager"   - another which could be used to format SDcard or USB to standard FAT32 aswell, is called "ddCopy"

thank you very much.

steve_v

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Registered: 2018-01-11

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Re: (request) including of USBimager

it is harder to use "mkusb" program on Devuan/Debian nowadys

mkusb is an Ubuntu specific tool, so that's not particularly surprising.

The closest you will get to a "universal" bootable-media tool is ventoy, which should run fine on Devuan.

"USBImager"... "ddCopy"

both provide .deb packages which will very likely work on Devuan. Have you tried them?

format SDcard or USB to standard FAT32

mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/[whatever]

Why on earth do we need a GUI for this?
Similarly, for writing single hybrid images to removable media, dd or cp work just as well as they always have.

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stargate-sg1-cheyenne-mtn

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Re: (request) including of USBimager

also regarding external storage media, these may provide additional valuable information:

https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,26762.0.html

https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,26778.0.html

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kapqa

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Re: (request) including of USBimager

yes, i have tried them , and found them easy to use to the point of being "dangerously" easy to use.

tried both .deb and they would install on devuan 6 , and function , and needed to include some more packages.

it would be nice if they could be installed via devuan repository.

it is good practice to offer help via GUI for less tech-savy users and newbies.

always found it difficult to use the inbuilt-tools for making bootable usb-sticks.
(maybe with excaption of linux-mint, but digress)

thanks.

greenjeans

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Re: (request) including of USBimager

Mintstick is what you seek my friend, it's in the repo, it's an awesome utility. Refracta2usb if you want to do more complex things like multi-boot and persistence.

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kapqa

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Re: (request) including of USBimager

@USBImager
https://gitlab.com/bztsrc/usbimager

@ddcopy
https://store.kde.org/p/1240360/

both seem very nice, innocuous,  please test to judge if its suitable.

pcalvert

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Registered: 2017-05-15

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Re: (request) including of USBimager

Mintstick is what you seek my friend, it's in the repo, it's an awesome utility. Refracta2usb if you want to do more complex things like multi-boot and persistence.

There is also isoimagewriter for creating bootable USB flash drives from hybrid ISO files.

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