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

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 13 Jan 2014, Mark Haney wrote:

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> On 1/13/2014 1:34 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > Robert P. J. Day wrote:
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> > 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.
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> > But I don't know what you mean by "writable". All the USB sticks I
> > have are writable.
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> I believe by 'writeable' he means persistent storage. In my reply, I
> was going to mention I have written a lot of things to the flash
> drive while using it as a live media and had it carry across
> reboots.  Maybe I'm just not completely understanding the idea of
> persistent storage.

  if liveusb-creator already creates a bootable USB drive that
supports persistent changes, then i'm set -- for some reason, i didn't
think that was the case.

  so what's the difference between liveusb-creator and
livecd-iso-to-disk? why would i use one over the other?

rday

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