Good call, klaas. I just released v3.7.1 which prepends the '.' in front of the tool path. Please give it a shot and let me know if it fixes the Windows 7 issue! It still works fine for me in XP.

https://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/i/liveusb-creator/liveusb-creator-3.7.1....

Thanks,

luke

On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 01:35:02PM -0700, klaas langhout wrote:

i think the issue is that liveusb-creator spawns the process as "tools\7e" when it should be ".\tools\7e"

I think the error is that without the . or .. the path for tools\7e is being interpreted as a UNC path which it isn't but, if the path has "." prepended, it specifies the current working directory (CWD).

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Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:11:54 -0400 From: lmacken@redhat.com To: liveusb-creator@lists.fedorahosted.org CC: klaasl@hotmail.com Subject: Re: Fwd: Feedback on installing the Windows sugar stick

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 11:53:31PM +0200, Sean Daly wrote:

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Greetings,

I'm with Sugar Labs and a user seems to have found a bug regarding a pathname while executing LiveUSB Creator under Windows 7, could you possibly look into this please?

Many thanks

Sean

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: klaas langhout klaasl@hotmail.com Date: Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:08 PM Subject: Feedback on installing the Windows sugar stick To: feedback@sugarlabs.org

Quick feedback:

• using http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Strawberry#Windows_Users
• did: Download the latest version of Fedora LiveUSB Creator from

http://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/ and extract it;

The instructions didn't match the current LiveUSB creator. In specific, when I launched the app, no option to format existed but, the download for Sugar on a Stick was already there. It failed to create and, in looking at the log file it was because of a UNC path usage that was invalid on Windows 7

Z:\liveusb-creator-3.7[1]\liveusb-creator-3.7>type liveusb-creator.log tools\7z.exe x "soas-strawberry.iso" -x![BOOT] -y -oE: 'liveusb-creator-3.7[1]\liveusb-creator-3.7' CMD.EXE was started with the above path as the current directory. UNC paths are not supported. Defaulting to Windows directory. The system cannot find the path specified.

I had to manually invoke as: 7z.exe x "..\soas-strawberry.iso" -x![BOOT] -y -oE:

Cheers, thanks for puttting this together.

Hmm, this looks like something is not quite right.

I'm wondering if the "liveusb-creator-3.7[1]" is causing problems? It's complaining about UNC path, which from what I recall is something like \foo\bar, yet I don't see any UNC-like paths in the command.

I installed Windows 7 last night in a virtual machine, but have been getting weird device I/O errors when trying to test things out.

http://lmacken.fedorapeople.org/liveusb-creator-3.7.1b.zip

Can you give that one a shot?

Thanks!

luke