Creating live USB keys in Windows

[Tim Lauridsen]

Tim Lauridsen wrote:
> Douglas McClendon wrote:
>> Luke Macken wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> So, I wrote some code that will install a Fedora Live ISO onto a USB
>>> stick, in Windows.
>>>
>>> It automatically detects all removable drives, finds your ISO, extracts
>>> it to your USB key, tweaks the syslinux.cfg, and installs the
>>> bootloader.
>>>
>>> From a user perspective, using it is pretty simple:
>>> - download fedora
>>> - download and extract livecd-iso-to-usb.zip
>>> - drag fedora iso into directory
>>> - double click 'livecd-iso-to-usb.exe'
>>> - ...profit!
>>>
>>> It has worked great during all of my testing, and Jesse seemed to have
>>> good luck with it today, but we definitely need more people to try it
>>> out before we can start recommending it to users.
>>>
>>>     Documentation: 
>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LukeMacken/WindowsLiveUSB
>>>     In action: http://lmacken.fedorapeople.org/livecd-iso-to-usb.png
>>>     The binary: http://lmacken.fedorapeople.org/livecd-iso-to-usb.zip
>>>     The code: git clone 
>>> http://lmacken.fedorapeople.org/livecd-iso-to-usb.git
>>>
>>> Comments/suggestions/patches/flames ?
>>
>> Very cool.  Thanks.
>>
>> I remember a while back when I last used that other OS, that it was a 
>> pain to do something as simple as burn an iso image to cdrom*.  If 
>> that is still the case, and if there is an OSS solution to that, 
>> perhaps it could all be bundled in the 'fedora burning tool for 
>> windows' package. Just a thought...
>>
>> * yes, most users will have some 3rd party solution they are familiar 
>> with, but I still think it would be cool to not depend on such things.
>>
>> -dmc
>>
> 
> There is a Windows version cdrecord available here[1], there dont need 
> the cygwin runtime
> 
> [1] : http://smithii.com/files/cdrtools-2.01-bootcd.ru-w32.zip
> 
> Tim
> 

http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net/

this could also be a possibility, it is nice for the windows users the 
also exist some nice open source software programs they can use in the 
dark world of closed source software :)

Tim