Changing .bin to .img

[owl.bowels]

I have no trouble compiling Chromium OS, and putting it on a flash
drive with ./image_to_usb. But I want my friend to try Chromium OS as
well!

How would someone in Windows write the chromiumos_image.bin file to a
flash drive? I've looked at "dd for windows", but it doesn't seem to
have the oflag option that's used in the script.

- OB

[owl.bowels]

Tried again to use w32-image-writer, and this time it worked. Could
it be because I newly formatted the drive? I couldn't find a lot of
information on what the oflag=sync option does, except fill extra
space (at the end of the drive?) with NULLs.

- OB

[Denis Lagno]

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 9:24 PM, owl.bowels <owl.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I couldn't find a lot of
> information on what the oflag=sync option does, except fill extra
> space (at the end of the drive?) with NULLs.

I guess you confused it with conv=sync which is a different option.

AFAIU oflag=sync just ensures that (meta)data actually reaches disk
and not pending in caches.

[owl.bowels]

Thanks!

So, even though it'd be slow, shouldn't this work?

dd if=chromiumos_image.bin of=/dev/sdb

I'm still having trouble. Might be hardware error. Can anyone else
confirm the above command?

On Dec 7, 1:30 pm, Denis Lagno <dil...@chromium.org> wrote:

[David Rochberg]

I would add bs=16M to that (which gets better performance), but yes,
that should work.

> --
> Chromium OS discuss mailing list: chromium-...@chromium.org
> View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe:
> http://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-os-discuss?hl=en
>

[owl.bowels]

Thanks for all the help. Must have been my drive, W32 Disk Imager is
working great now.

Here's a link to the vanilla build BTW:
https://sites.google.com/site/owlbowels/chromium-os/chromiumos_12-07-10.img.torrent?attredirects=0&d=1

On Dec 7, 4:11 pm, David Rochberg <rochb...@chromium.org> wrote:
> I would add bs=16M to that (which gets better performance), but yes,
> that should work.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 1:38 PM, owl.bowels <owl.bow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks!
>
> > So, even though it'd be slow, shouldn't this work?
>
> > dd if=chromiumos_image.bin of=/dev/sdb
>
> > I'm still having trouble.  Might be hardware error.  Can anyone else
> > confirm the above command?
>
> > On Dec 7, 1:30 pm, Denis Lagno <dil...@chromium.org> wrote:
> >> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 9:24 PM, owl.bowels <owl.bow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > I couldn't find a lot of
> >> > information on what the oflag=sync option does, except fill extra
> >> > space (at the end of the drive?) with NULLs.
>
> >> I guess you confused it with conv=sync which is a different option.
>
> >> AFAIU oflag=sync just ensures that (meta)data actually reaches disk
> >> and not pending in caches.
>
> > --

> > Chromium OS discuss mailing list: chromium-os-disc...@chromium.org