livecd-iso-to-disk

[Gary Thomas]

The documentation on 'livecd-iso-to-disk' is pretty thin.
My main [first?] question is once I create such a USB-stick
image, how do I boot it?  Do I have to have a machine with
a BIOS that understands such?

Thanks for any help/pointers

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[Harish Pillay]

Gary -

>  The documentation on 'livecd-iso-to-disk' is pretty thin.
>  My main [first?] question is once I create such a USB-stick
>  image, how do I boot it?  Do I have to have a machine with
>  a BIOS that understands such? 
In a word, yes.  Typically, you could set up the BIOS to
attempt to boot from the USB first, then the CDROM, then
the harddisk.

HTH.
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[Douglas McClendon]

Harish Pillay 9v1hp wrote:
>  Gary -
>  
> > The documentation on 'livecd-iso-to-disk' is pretty thin.
> > My main [first?] question is once I create such a USB-stick
> > image, how do I boot it?  Do I have to have a machine with
> > a BIOS that understands such?
>  
>  In a word, yes.  Typically, you could set up the BIOS to
>  attempt to boot from the USB first, then the CDROM, then
>  the harddisk. 
It can also be more complicated than that.  For starters, some bioses 
have an entry (usb-zip?) which will boot from a usb-flash drive if it is 
formatted in a specific way (see syslinux documentation I think for 
details).

Also, the bios on one of my systems has a lot of options, and I think 
one of them actually works, but I need to (re)figure out- 
USB-HDD/USB-FDD/USB-RMD/USB-ARMsomething....

I agree it would be nice to have a good doc that mentions these things. 
  I'll certainly drop some notes when I re-figure out the above choice 
(usb-hdd didn't seem to work, but I'm pretty sure one of the others did)

-dmc