Bug 16378

FWIW, this was discussed in https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=9906 and also via PM with Yves who adapted mandriva seed/usbdumper for us.

CC: (none) => doktor5000, yves.brungard_mageia

I confirm that Usbdumper is not the better tool, and I will no more maintain it.
The problem is:
"If it show "writing error or access denied" try the following method: run the console (cmd), then type "diskpart", then "list disk", then select your disk with "select disk", and type "clean" (it will erase the key)."
Rufus has a feature to manage that. Its code is C++ and I didn't find the equivalent in Python.

I have updated the wiki from which this text was taken, a week ago, but was not aware it was still in the download page. Definitely needs to be changed.

(In reply to Samuel VERSCHELDE from comment #3)
> I have updated the wiki from which this text was taken, a week ago, but was
> not aware it was still in the download page. Definitely needs to be changed.

Text is still on the downloads page. Looking at the source, it starts at line 306:

    <div id="iso2usbEx">
    <h2>Dump Mageia ISO on a USB flash drive</h2><p>"Dumping" an image onto a flash device destroys any prior file-system in the partition; access to any data not destroyed will be lost, and partition capacity will be reduced to the image size. In other words, all prior data on the device is at risk.</p><p class="warn">Unetbootin should not be used to copy the iso image to a USB drive (see below).</p><p>To dump a Mageia installation ISO on a USB stick, you may try one of several tools:</p><ul><li>For Linux, IsoDumper, available inside repo. Or any tools based on dd.</li><li>For windows use 


<a href="http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/people/marcom/usbdumper.exe">usbdumper.</a><span class="dlinfo">If it show "writing error or access denied" try the fallowing method: run the console (cmd), then type "diskpart", then "list disk", then select your disk with "select disk", and type "clean" (it will erase the key).</span>        </li>
    </ul>
    </div>
</div>

The above section in line 307 needs to be changed. Checked our git:



ââ[doktor5000@Mageia5]â[14:56:14]â[~/MGA/GITWEB]
ââââ¼ grep -Rn usbdumper .
./www/ar/5/download_index.php:171:        _g('For windows use <a href="%s">usbdumper.</a>',array('http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/people/marcom/usbdumper.exe'));
./www/ast/5/download_index.php:171:        _g('For windows use <a href="%s">usbdumper.</a>',array('http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/people/marcom/usbdumper.exe'));
./www/ca/5/download_index.php:171:        _g('For windows use <a href="%s">usbdumper.</a>',array('http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/people/marcom/usbdumper.exe'));
./www/cs/5/download_index.php:171:        _g('For windows use <a href="%s">usbdumper.</a>',array('http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/people/marcom/usbdumper.exe'));
./www/de/5/download_index.php:171:        _g('For windows use <a href="%s">usbdumper.</a>',array('http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/people/marcom/usbdumper.exe'));
./www/el/5/download_index.php:171:        _g('For windows use <a href="%s">usbdumper.</a>',array('http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/people/marcom/usbdumper.exe'));
./www/en-gb/5/download_index.php:171:        _g('For windows use <a href="%s">usbdumper.</a>',array('http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/people/marcom/usbdumper.exe'));
./www/en/5/download_index.php:171:        _g('For windows use <a href="%s">usbdumper.</a>',array('http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/people/marcom/usbdumper.exe'));
./www/eo/5/download_index.php:171:        _g('For windows use <a href="%s">usbdumper.</a>',array('http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/people/marcom/usbdumper.exe'));
./www/es/5/download_index.php:171:        _g('For windows use <a href="%s">usbdumper.</a>',array('http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/people/marcom/usbdumper.exe'));
./www/et/5/download_index.php:171:        _g('For windows use <a href="%s">usbdumper.</a>',array('http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/people/marcom/usbdumper.exe'));
./www/eu/5/download_index.php:171:        _g('For windows use <a href="%s">usbdumper.</a>',array('http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/people/marcom/usbdumper.exe'));
./www/fi/5/download_index.php:171:        _g('For windows use <a href="%s">usbdumper.</a>',array('http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/people/marcom/usbdumper.exe'));
./www/fr/5/download_index.php:171:        _g('For windows use <a href="%s">usbdumper.</a>',array('http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/people/marcom/usbdumper.exe'));
./www/hr/5/download_index.php:171:        _g('For windows use <a href="%s">usbdumper.</a>',array('http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/people/marcom/usbdumper.exe'));
./www/hu/5/download_index.php:171:        _g('For windows use <a href="%s">usbdumper.</a>',array('http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/people/marcom/usbdumper.exe'));
./www/id/5/download_index.php:171:        _g('For windows use <a href="%s">usbdumper.</a>',array('http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/people/marcom/usbdumper.exe'));
./www/it/5/download_index.php:171:        _g('For windows use <a href="%s">usbdumper.</a>',array('http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/people/marcom/usbdumper.exe'));
./www/ja/5/download_index.php:171:        _g('For windows use <a href="%s">usbdumper.</a>',array('http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/people/marcom/usbdumper.exe'));

[snip]

and the various .po files too.

commit dd506c3a2153b18ef7f29b15fa48f2c9d9809cb9
Author: filip <filip.komar@...>
Date:   Tue Jul 28 16:46:35 2015 +0200

    bugfix for mga#16378 + Slovenian translation updated
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 Commit Link:
   http://gitweb.mageia.org/web/www/commit/?id=dd506c3a2153b18ef7f29b15fa48f2c9d9809cb9

Please reopen if needed.

I hope that Manuel as author doesn't mind.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => filip.komar
Resolution: (none) => FIXED

commit b2131dd8fb34d8e76f69c7723cc868d1325c0075
Author: Egoitz Rodriguez <egoitzro@...>
Date:   Tue Jul 28 17:47:34 2015 +0200

    bugfix for mga#16378 + Basque translation updated
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 Commit Link:
   http://gitweb.mageia.org/web/www/commit/?id=b2131dd8fb34d8e76f69c7723cc868d1325c0075

Thanks for the fixes :)