Rant of the day: Insane dependencies for liveusb-creator

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

On 05/11/2013 01:04 PM, g wrote:
>
>
> although you have already installed liveusb-creator, did you give
> consideration to using;
>
>    dd if=/path/to/iso-file of=/dev/usb
>
> i run fedora for special programs and mainly use scientific linux,
> which already had liveusb-creator installed.
>
Have you actually tried this? Unless the USB device gets detected as
a CD-ROM, the format is going to be wrong. The partition table and
boot loader for a USB drive detected as a hard drive are different
then the format of a CD-ROM. That is why programs like
liveusb-creator are necessary.

Mikkel

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