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

psmith psmith at fedoraproject.org
Sun Apr 12 16:10:51 UTC 2009


David wrote:
> On 4/11/2009 4:20 PM, psmith wrote:
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>>> On 4/11/2009 1:50 PM, psmith wrote:
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>>>> 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,
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>>>> dd if=foo.iso of=/dev/usb-diskname bs=8M
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>>>> for more info check here >>
>>>> http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2009.1_RC_2#Hybrid_ISOs
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>>>> is this something that fedora would consider?
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>>>> phil
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>>>> 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.
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>>>> phil
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>>> This one works well.
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>>> liveusb-creator
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>>> https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/
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>>> and it's already in Fedora 10 and up. You can make your own.  :-)
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>> 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 :-/
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> 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.
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> 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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how about actually reading what's written huh? the iso that mandriva 
prepares is usable as a cd iso and a usb iso only requiring dd to write 
it to usb, so how is this two iso's?

and the same goes here one iso two purposes, but with the mandriva 
version there is no need for installing secondary programs like 
livecd-tools or liveusb-creator to use it on a usb, just dd the image across

phil




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