"liveusb-creator" versus "livecd-iso-to-disk"?

[Timothy Murphy]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>   background: i'm teaching a linux admin class next week and i will be
> supplied with laptops for the students that i've been asked *not* to
> overwrite, so my plan is to create bootable *and writable* USB drives
> for everyone. (the course will actually run on RHEL/centos 6.5 but i'm
> assuming my question is still relevant.)
> 
>   as i read it (and i could be totally misunderstanding what i'm
> reading), "liveusb-creator" does *not* give me a writable system,
> while "livecd-iso-to-disk" can, using the "--overlay-size-mb" option.

I've found livecd-iso-to-disk very good.
It enabled me to put CentOS, Fedora and Windows XP last week
on my HP MicroServer with no CD reader.
On the other hand liveusb-creator failed with 2, maybe all 3, of these.

But I don't know what you mean by "writable".
All the USB sticks I have are writable.

I'm assuming you are talking of USB Flash Drives?

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Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland