"liveusb-creator" versus "livecd-iso-to-disk"?

[Mark Haney]

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On 1/13/2014 12:52 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
> background: i'm teaching a linux admin class next week and i will
> be supplied with laptops for the students that i've been asked
> *not* to overwrite, so my plan is to create bootable *and writable*
> USB drives for everyone. (the course will actually run on
> RHEL/centos 6.5 but i'm assuming my question is still relevant.)
> 
> as i read it (and i could be totally misunderstanding what i'm 
> reading), "liveusb-creator" does *not* give me a writable system, 
> while "livecd-iso-to-disk" can, using the "--overlay-size-mb"
> option.


FWIW, I use Lili USB creator (linuxliveusb.com) for things like that,
if I can. (Some distros aren't always happy booting when creating them
with Lili).  It gives you the option of setting up persistent storage
and I've created bootable CentOS drives (including 6.5) several times
with it and it works fine.






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