On 3/27/07, Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> 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.
Jeremy
some time back, i had posted script for something similar. for some reason the
post wasn't distributed to (my?) mail clients, though i can see it
off the list.
[
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-livecd-list/2007-March/msg00053.html ]
The main agenda of sUSBix is slightly different, but it can also do a
live CD to USB
install after partitioning. It is now at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/susbix
- Its a zenity GUI installer and bases its rootfs etc on Fedora Live CD.
That way user can customise the base using livecd-creator according to
stick size/pkg needs.
- Partitions into /boot , /root, /data [and optionally swap for susbix mode]
(yes - data has to be backed up, The stick would be exclusive for "live" USB)
- boot param by-id (USB vendor-part). so that install m/c need not be
the only one
where it should be used. (static usb_id in ramdisk, since i couldnt
label squash
(?)
- Coninues to used the squahsed rootfs to retain compression;
and intend to use /data paritition as persistant meta
data/configuration ( rc.local)
beyond what is available frozen in read-only squashfs.
- any other user data in /data
more info under README and documentation txt.
Since i couldn't see downloadable stuff on USB front from this forum,
i started doing
on my own. Iam willing to contribute if anything is worth reuse etc.
[Nb: not sure if this mail would be delivered to list ]
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Rgds
Noor