[Fedora-livecd-list] Live USB thought

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. -- Fedora-livecd-list mailing list Fedora-livecd-list(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list