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

[jdow]

On 2014/01/13 11:08, Mark Haney wrote:
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> On 1/13/2014 2:02 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>> On Mon, 13 Jan 2014, Fernando Cassia wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>> 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
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> 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.)

If students are involved I'd be inclined to find a fairly ironclad
method of preventing access to the Windows disks. Otherwise, students
being students, they will start unauthorized prying around on the
attached Windows install and potentially corrupt it badly.

{o.o}