Creating live USB keys in Windows
Tim Lauridsen
tim.lauridsen at googlemail.com
Mon Feb 4 10:21:57 UTC 2008
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
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