making available usb usable iso's without using livecd-iso-to-disk or liveusb-creator

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Sun Apr 12 16:27:39 UTC 2009


On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Till Maas <opensource at till.name> wrote:
> On So April 12 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> psmith wrote:
>> > like i said it was brought up that liveusb-creator and
>> > livecd-iso-to-disk were available, but both of these are additional
>> > packages and incur resource usage where as releasing an iso that is both
>> > usb and cdr compatible saves resources
>>
>> Actually, making a hybrid ISO wastes the resource which is most valuable:
>> disk space on the live CD! We're always very much at the limit of the live
>> CD size, we have no room for extra USB stuff.
>
> Is this really the case? By accident I found that the isolinux package
> contains a isohybrid shell script which modifies existing iso images to be
> hybrid.

So you can run it on the client side and use dd after that.




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