Sharma Family Journal

Downloaded a copy today. The install instructions ask you to dd the iso into a USB stick. That’s not so nice – for people with other data (eg: images, music) on the flash drive. I tried using unetbootin – but didn’t work out of the box. Here’s the trick:

1. Assumes you’ve already run unetbootin once on your USB key. Backup syslinux.cfg if necessary.
2. mount the image and then extract vmlinuz0, initrd0.img and splash.jpg onto the USB stick.
3. Copy isolinux.cfg as syslinux.cfg
4. Edit root=/dev/sdb1 rootfstype=vfat in syslinux.cfg. Replace sdb1 with the device name or label for your setup.

Reboot.

Overall impressions: Looks like a slick interface. As an end user I wish projects like maemo, moblin and android cooperated and produced one polished product.

Have you bought anything lately from Walmart (beyond soap, diaper and mouthwash) that actually works? I haven’t. I picked up $10 faded glory sun glasses recently that gave me a headache. Turns out that the glasses are not 20/20 (they seem to magnify slightly) and were not labelled as such. Memorex Mi3020? Looks cool, but the connector breaks in a few weeks and you can’t find the receipt to claim the warranty.

Target seems to be a much better place to shop – definitely so in densely populated areas where walmart is totally in the pits. Travel to a less densely populated place like Denver – it’s a different walmart there.