Yeah, no I haven't had any issues with Startup disc creator outside of the fact that it only works with Ubuntu. That alone is lame, I am not against Thumbos, I just don't think that it should replace startupdisc creator as it is rather easy to use, especially if you are making an Ultimate Edition install. Now if Ultimate Edition could get away from Ubuntu that would be great. Thumbos should replace Unotbootin if it replaces anything..but I noticed I still had that on 3.8. yay Speed is not consistent, it takes about the same amount of time with heavy distros, and honestly, if it went quicker I would start getting pretty suspicious.
That doesn't change one thing however, the one thing that is driving me nuts so here we go...
SD=USB USB=SD
It makes me uncomfortable to see all these queries and since they are bleeding over to the social sites let's clear this up a little..
I can get why one might find this difficult so I have pictures...
So here we go,let's take a ride on the SD train...
Need an SD card, I am an Android enthusiast because I know what I am doing but I digress, so let's kill a Droid 2 and pull the card.
Lots O Droid stuff...
So assuming we have thumbos installed, here is our route
Always a good idea to find out where your card is...
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thumbos --scan
or
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thumbos -s
After scanning, it looks like we have a card on sdb, notice how much it does not matter that it is an SD card. Almost as if it could totally be a USB.
Now it is a good idea to prepare our card, so let's erase it....we know it is on sdb so we go like this..
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sudo thumbos --erase sdb
or
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sudo thumbos -e sdb
It will prompt you with an areyousure type deal, enter Y or N. For the purpose of proceeding we will choose Y
Now we are ready to write. Navigate to where you are storing the image, in this case I will use the latest Trusty daily build, and it will look like this..
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sudo thumbos --load trusty-desktop-i386.iso sdb
or
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sudo thumbos -l trusty-desktop-i386.iso sdb
This too will prompt a yay or nay, so If you want to go forward press Y.
and now you wait. Depending on the size and hardware it could be either really quick or you should go get some coffee or something. Either way, after it is done, you should have a SD card ready to use for install. This of course also applies to USB because see above.