Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Live USB converter script

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.