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Re: USB installer support for 11.3?

From:  Cornelius Schumacher <cschum-l3A5Bk7waGM-AT-public.gmane.org>
To:  opensuse-project-stAJ6ESoqRxg9hUCZPvPmw-AT-public.gmane.org
Subject:  Re: USB installer support for 11.3?
Date:  Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:02:35 +0100
Cc:  Matt Barringer <mbarringer-l3A5Bk7waGM-AT-public.gmane.org>
Archive-link:  Article, Thread

On Wednesday 10 February 2010 14:27:39 Martin Schlander wrote:
> 
> But it would be nice if someone could slap a gui "frontend" to dd together,
> which lets them select the iso and device and asks them if they're
>  absolutely sure they want to delete everything on the device about 3-4
>  times, before proceeding. Maybe as a yast module.. to get Qt and gtk
>  versions "for free".

There is a UI tool for writing images to USB sticks available as part of the 
kiwi project: 
http://software.opensuse.org/ymp/openSUSE:Tools/openSUSE_...
imagewriter.ymp

It also comes with a Windows version. If you are interested in testing this, 
let Matt know (in CC).

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