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

David dgboles at comcast.net
Sat Apr 11 19:08:58 UTC 2009


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.  :-)

-- 


  David




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