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

[Mark Haney]

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On 1/13/2014 2:02 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jan 2014, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Mark Haney
>> <mhaney at practichem.com> wrote:
>>> and I've created bootable CentOS drives (including 6.5) several
>>> times with it and it works fine.
>> 
>> ...Until the writable space fills up.
> 
> just to be clear, what i'm after is a full, bootable (and 
> modifiable) linux system, booting totally from USB drive. in my
> case, it needs to be centos 6.5, and it needs to allow students to
> do *some* persistent mods to their system -- not a lot, basic
> configuration, that sort of thing.
> 
> so, does liveusb-creator handle that? if so, i'll go with that.
> 
> rday
> 

I've never had a lot of luck getting liveusb-creator to build good
bootable CentOS images.  Especially in Windows.  That's why I use
LiLI.  It allows for more setup options and works really well in
Windows. (Assuming you are going to have the students install Windows
THEN create the bootable flash drives.)


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