[Fedora-livecd-list] Live USB thought
Tim Wood
tim.wood at datawranglers.com
Mon Mar 26 21:45:27 UTC 2007
Has anyone tried to mix VMWare the either the live cd or (granted
it's brand new) the live usb. It it's doable I might save me
carrying a desktop across country next week (yeah meets groan)?
Tim Wood
On Mar 26, 2007, at 3:24 PM, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 16:33 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
>> When thinking about what we want for booting a live image with a USB
>> stick, I realized that realistically, we don't want to be
>> distributing a
>> "live USB" image. Because that requires running dd and destroying
>> whatever data you already happen to have on your USB stick.
>>
>> A better choice is to take the live CD image and copy the bits
>> from it
>> to your USB stick. The result is the attached script. Run it with
>> arguments of the live CD iso image and the device of your USB key
>> and it
>> copies over the bits of the live CD onto your USB stick and makes it
>> bootable. Supported filesystems for your USB stick are vfat/msdos
>> and
>> ext23.
>>
>> What do people think? It seems to work from some quick testing
>> and it's
>> impressive just how much faster it is going from a USB stick.
>
> I think this is a pretty awesome idea; we would just include it in the
> livecd-tools RPM and call it 'livecd-iso-to-stick'? Then we can always
> rewrite this in Python including teaching it about D-Bus system bus
> activation so we can write a nice little UI that runs unprivileged.
>
> I do think, at some point, we want livecd-creator to be able to write
> out other things than an ISO [1].
>
> David
>
> [1] : e.g. OLPC wants to transition to livecd-creator from pilgrim and
> they need to be able to build jffs2 and partitioned bootable ext3
> images
> too. But more about that later.
>
>
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