Creating live USB keys in Windows

Ahmed Kamal email.ahmedkamal at googlemail.com
Sat Feb 2 21:03:32 UTC 2008


May be Cdburn.exe available as a free download from
http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9d467a69-57ff-4ae7-96ee-b18c4790cffd&displaylang=en
We might even bundle the whole thing as a installer (Wizard style) ?

On Feb 2, 2008 10:21 PM, Douglas McClendon <
dmc.fedora at filteredperception.org> wrote:

> Luke Macken wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > So, I wrote some code that will install a Fedora Live ISO onto a USB
> > stick, in Windows.
> >
> > It automatically detects all removable drives, finds your ISO, extracts
> > it to your USB key, tweaks the syslinux.cfg, and installs the
> > bootloader.
> >
> > From a user perspective, using it is pretty simple:
> > - download fedora
> > - download and extract livecd-iso-to-usb.zip
> > - drag fedora iso into directory
> > - double click 'livecd-iso-to-usb.exe'
> > - ...profit!
> >
> > It has worked great during all of my testing, and Jesse seemed to have
> > good luck with it today, but we definitely need more people to try it
> > out before we can start recommending it to users.
> >
> >     Documentation:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LukeMacken/WindowsLiveUSB
> >     In action: http://lmacken.fedorapeople.org/livecd-iso-to-usb.png
> >     The binary: http://lmacken.fedorapeople.org/livecd-iso-to-usb.zip
> >     The code: git clone
> http://lmacken.fedorapeople.org/livecd-iso-to-usb.git
> >
> > Comments/suggestions/patches/flames ?
>
> Very cool.  Thanks.
>
> I remember a while back when I last used that other OS, that it was a
> pain to do something as simple as burn an iso image to cdrom*.  If that
> is still the case, and if there is an OSS solution to that, perhaps it
> could all be bundled in the 'fedora burning tool for windows' package.
> Just a thought...
>
> * yes, most users will have some 3rd party solution they are familiar
> with, but I still think it would be cool to not depend on such things.
>
> -dmc
>
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