ISO didn't run when created with livecd-iso-to-disk (Fat32 versus ext3?)

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Linuxguy123 <linuxguy123 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 07:45 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
>
>> The method you used does not create a bootable result.
>>
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB
>>
>> And notice there are 2 sections....
>>
>> Bootable USB from a running Live CD/DVD
>>
>> is the one you need.
>
> Actually, it wasn't.  I was running F10 as my OS and I had downloaded
> the F10 KDE4 beta live ISO to download on my usb stick.
>
> The exact command I used was:
> # livecd-iso-to-disk --reset-mbr --noverify --overlay-size-mb 100
> --home-size-mb 20
> --unencrypted-home /home/xxx/Download/f10-kde-4.1.80-1/f10-kde-4.1.80-i686-200812091339.iso /dev/sdc1
>
> I think there is a bug in this tool as I had trouble getting a bootable
> image with certain parameter combinations that looked like they should
> have worked.   But the above command line has worked reliably.
>
> I have not been able to get the liveUSB-creator tool to work.
>
> Hope this helps someone.


I used the GUI live usb creator in both Windows and Fedora, so I know
that method at least works.


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