[Fedora-livecd-list] Live USB thought

[Tim Wood]

Has anyone tried to mix VMWare the either the live cd or (granted  
it's brand new) the live usb.  It it's doable I might save me  
carrying a desktop across country next week (yeah meets groan)?

Tim Wood


On Mar 26, 2007, at 3:24 PM, David Zeuthen wrote:

> On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 16:33 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
>> When thinking about what we want for booting a live image with a USB
>> stick, I realized that realistically, we don't want to be  
>> distributing a
>> "live USB" image.  Because that requires running dd and destroying
>> whatever data you already happen to have on your USB stick.
>>
>> A better choice is to take the live CD image and copy the bits  
>> from it
>> to your USB stick.  The result is the attached script.  Run it with
>> arguments of the live CD iso image and the device of your USB key  
>> and it
>> copies over the bits of the live CD onto your USB stick and makes it
>> bootable.  Supported filesystems for your USB stick are vfat/msdos  
>> and
>> ext23.
>>
>> What do people think?  It seems to work from some quick testing  
>> and it's
>> impressive just how much faster it is going from a USB stick.
>
> I think this is a pretty awesome idea; we would just include it in the
> livecd-tools RPM and call it 'livecd-iso-to-stick'? Then we can always
> rewrite this in Python including teaching it about D-Bus system bus
> activation so we can write a nice little UI that runs unprivileged.
>
> I do think, at some point, we want livecd-creator to be able to write
> out other things than an ISO [1].
>
>      David
>
> [1] : e.g. OLPC wants to transition to livecd-creator from pilgrim and
> they need to be able to build jffs2 and partitioned bootable ext3  
> images
> too. But more about that later.
>
>
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