making available usb usable iso's without using livecd-iso-to-disk or liveusb-creator

[David]

On 4/11/2009 4:20 PM, psmith wrote:
> David wrote:
>> On 4/11/2009 1:50 PM, psmith wrote:

>>> we were talking on this list a few weeks back about making live spins
>>> available in a usb format instead of just an iso and it was said that it
>>> would incur more work and that because of the script and program
>>> mentioned in the title there was no need, well it turns out that
>>> mandriva have made iso's that are both usb and cdr compatible, all
>>> that's needed to put the iso on usb is a dd command,



>>> dd if=foo.iso of=/dev/usb-diskname bs=8M



>>> for more info check here >>
>>> http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2009.1_RC_2#Hybrid_ISOs



>>> is this something that fedora would consider?



>>> phil



>>> i don't know if that this is new info or not, or how they do it but i
>>> thought it interesting and i think all distros should head this way for
>>> live releases.



>>> phil



>> This one works well.

>> liveusb-creator

>> https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/

>> and it's already in Fedora 10 and up. You can make your own.  :-)


> like i said it was brought up that liveusb-creator and
> livecd-iso-to-disk were available, but both of these are additional
> packages and incur resource usage where as releasing an iso that is both
> usb and cdr compatible saves resources and makes the step of writing to
> usb a simple one, granted liveusb-creator and livecd-iso-to-disk are
> easy enough to use but they are an additional download where as dd is
> installed by default. i can see no reason not to use this dual format
> for live releases, and if you think that because tools are available to
> use the existing method is a valid reason not to move forward with other
> more useful methods then i don't know what to say :-/

> phil

So what you are saying it that you want all of the mirrors to carry both a
CD ISO and a USB ISO? One each for Gnome and KDE.

Ping. Both are the same animal guy. The same ISO that you would burn to a CD
is the same ISO that you would write to a USB stick. It all depends on what
you use to install it where.

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  David