naive live USB question

[psmith]

On 12/08/09 21:05, David L wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:47 PM, David L wrote:
>    
>> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>>      
>>> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 09:23:00AM -0700, David L wrote:
>>>        
>>>> I recently took a f11 live USB stick and used it to install
>>>> f11 on a second USB stick (my hard drive crashed and I
>>>> decided to temporarily just use a USB stick for a hard
>>>> drive... that worked amazingly well by the way, but I
>>>> digress). �I was wondering why the live USB creation process
>>>> can't just create the result of this process... ie, make
>>>> the stick look like a normal disk instead of the "persistent
>>>> overlay" thing?
>>>>          
>>> Not a naive question, but I guess the answer is, you don't need the
>>> Live USB creation process to do that -- you can just install to a USB
>>> key using the standard installer. �The Live USB process grew out of
>>> the Live CD case, because it's a way to use one image in two different
>>> types of media. �If you want a bootable stick that's simply a piece of
>>> media like a hard disk, you can do that with Anaconda at any time,
>>> booting either your system or a VM guest with boot or installation
>>> media, and then installing to the USB key.
>>>        
>> IMHO, it would be nice if that process was done by the fedora
>> folks and the resulting USB image was provided along with the
>> live images. �That way, somebody that wanted a bootable USB
>> would have a choice of the live CD image (which seems to have
>> some vestigial organs as a result of its evolution from Live CD)
>> or a file that could simply be dd'd onto a USB stick. �You could
>> even have different sizes with a different number of packages
>> for different size USB sticks.
>>
>>      
> Hmmm... I think I found something like what I'm talking about on
> the fedora 12 release notes:
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Alpha_release_notes#Hybrid_ISO_images_-_Simple_and_Easy_Live_USB.27s
>
> Is that what I'm talking about or is it just an easier way to get
> the identical image onto a USB?
>
> Thanks,
>
>               David
>
>    
jeez when i brought up the idea of fedora using hybrid iso's a few 
months back i was basically lambasted by most on this list, now all of a 
sudden it's a new F12 feature? wtf???

phil
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