mic-image-writer(1) [debian man page]

MIC-IMAGE-WRITER(1)					      General Commands Manual					       MIC-IMAGE-WRITER(1)

NAME

       mic-image-writer - Write a live image to a USB stick

SYNOPSIS

       mic-image-writer [options] [image file]

DESCRIPTION

       mic-image-writer is a simple yet very helpful tool, it can help you write a live image to a USB stick, it is safer than dd and has a good
       progress indicator, it has two work modes, console and GUI, you can explicitly use -c | --console and -g | --gui to force it to enter
       console or gui mode, by default, it will smartly decide this automatically.

       It just writes an image to the whole USB stick, so the original data on your USB stick will be overwritten, mic-image-manager has a more
       powerful GUI tool for this case, it can write a live image to a specified partition, the old data on that partition will keep intact.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help     show this help message

       -c, --console  Run in console mode

       -g, --gui      Run in GUI mode

EXAMPLES

       Write a Molib live image to your USB disk:

       mic-image-writer your-2.1-final.img

EXIT STATUS

       mic-image-convertor returns  a  zero  exist  status  if it succeeds, otherwise return non-zero and print error message.

AUTHOR

       Yi Yang, Anas Nashif, Jianfeng Ding

SEE ALSO

       mic-image-creator(1), mic-convertor(1), mic-chroot(1), mic-livecd-iso-to-disk(1), mic-image-manager(1)

perl v5.12.3							    2011-05-31						       MIC-IMAGE-WRITER(1)

MIC-LIVECD-ISO-TO-DISK(1)				      General Commands Manual					 MIC-LIVECD-ISO-TO-DISK(1)

NAME

       mic-livecd-iso-to-disk - Convert a livecd image to a live USB image then write to a USB disk or partition

SYNOPSIS

       mic-livecd-iso-to-disk [--reset-mbr] [--noverify] [--overlay-size-mb <size>] [--home-size-mb <size>] [--unencrypted-home] <isopath>
       [usbstick device]

       <isopath> is your livecd image path name, [usbstick device] is optional, if not provided, it will detect automatically and ask you to
       select.

DESCRIPTION

       mic-livecd-iso-to-disk can convert a livecd image to a live USB image and write it to a USB disk or partition, it is different from mic-
       image-writer which is just a safer dd with progress bar.

       mic-livecd-iso-to-disk can detect all the removable USB disks and let you select one of them, if you didn't insert any USB disk, it will
       ask you to insert until a USB disk is available, it can decide if your USB disk need to be formated and if your USB disk has an appropriate
       partition for this livecd image, all the operations are interactive and have warnings f they will damage your old data on your USB disk.

       mic-image-manager has a GUI tool for it.

OPTIONS

       --reset-mbr     Set MBR on your USB disk

       --noverify      Don't verify your livecd image

       --overlay-size-mb      Specify overlay size, the default size is 64 MB

       --home-size-mb	      Specify home size, the default is 0

EXAMPLES

       Write a Molib live image to your USB disk:

       mic-livecd-iso-to-disk your-2.1-final.img

EXIT STATUS

       mic-livecd-iso-to-disk returns  a  zero	exist  status  if it succeeds, otherwise return non-zero and print error message.

AUTHOR

       Yi Yang, Anas Nashif, Jianfeng Ding

SEE ALSO

       mic-image-creator(1), mic-convertor(1), mic-chroot(1), mic-image-writer(1), mic-image-manager(1)

perl v5.12.3							    2011-05-31						 MIC-LIVECD-ISO-TO-DISK(1)