[GRLUG] Laptop Fondling

[Erik Southworth]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Ron Lauzon <rlauzon at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 7:39 AM, <peyeps at iserv.net> wrote:
> > Found that the easiest way to create the USB Live memory stick was to
> > download the .ISO image on another machine with a CD burner and usb port.
> > Burn the live CD to disk and load the live CD.  While running the live
> CD,
> > there is a command line program usb-creator, that makes it easy to burn
> > the boot USB drive, using the currently running live CD.
>
> Have you tried Unetbootin? (http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/)
>
> I used this to create a bootable thumbdrive to install Ubuntu to my
> laptop.  It was quick and easy.


I tried unetbootin before and even wrote a plugin for it, but seems to only
support LIVE media ISOs and not standard installer images.

I just copy the .ISO to Flash dev, extract the isolinux folder, convert to
syslinux namespace and install syslinux to the device. ( very script-able )
A lot of tools seem to format and image the device which wastes space and
destroys data. I can have several ISOs on a device and boot any one by
running it's isolinux(syslinux) bootloader.

>
>
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