Needed - UK Linux geek with a flash card writer

[ffutures]

Briefly, I want to install the jlime implementation of Linux onto a compact flash card for eventual use in my HP Jornada 728 hand-held. I have a biggish card and Jlime is here, but the card has to be partitioned using Linux, and various arcane things have to be done in Linux to make it work, and I REALLY don't want to mess around with a linux install on my main PC.

Would anyone be willing to take a shot at setting up the card for me? I'd really rather not post the computer itself, but as far as I can tell there is no need to be connected to a Linux machine once the install is done. I may be wrong on that, since I'm not expert, but it looks that way from a cursory read.

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[autopope.livejournal.com]

REALLY don't want to mess around with a linux install on my main PC.

Who said you'd need to do that? Ubuntu (and other distros) will happily run live from a boot CDROM -- all you lose is a bit of speed, and the ability to save any changes you made to the filesystem there.

1. Download the Ubuntu 9.04 live CD image.

2. Grab appropriate tool for burning said image onto a CD, and do so.

3. Boot from the live CD. Your PC will come up running a Linux desktop (assuming nothing's wildly non-standard). It should also see your USB bus and anything on it (such as, oh, a card reader and/or other stuff). It should be fairly straightforward to mount your Windows partition so you can find the Jlime distro image. And then you should be able to do what needs done.

If necessary, invite a local Linux wonk around to do the job on your PC. It shouldn't be too hard.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Alas, this is where you read "I really don't want to mess around with a linux install on my main PC" as "he can just boot it off a CD", where I in fact mean "I really don't want to do anything with linux on my main PC in case I bugger it up," and would greatly prefer someone who knows what he's doing to do this...

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

OK, ended up trying it - eventually got a message that I didn't have umount, which is probably something a Linux expert could sort in ten seconds but left me a bit baffled.