On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:47 PM, David L wrote: > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 09:23:00AM -0700, David L wrote: >>> I recently took a f11 live USB stick and used it to install >>> f11 on a second USB stick (my hard drive crashed and I >>> decided to temporarily just use a USB stick for a hard >>> drive... that worked amazingly well by the way, but I >>> digress). I was wondering why the live USB creation process >>> can't just create the result of this process... ie, make >>> the stick look like a normal disk instead of the "persistent >>> overlay" thing? >> >> Not a naive question, but I guess the answer is, you don't need the >> Live USB creation process to do that -- you can just install to a USB >> key using the standard installer. The Live USB process grew out of >> the Live CD case, because it's a way to use one image in two different >> types of media. If you want a bootable stick that's simply a piece of >> media like a hard disk, you can do that with Anaconda at any time, >> booting either your system or a VM guest with boot or installation >> media, and then installing to the USB key. > > IMHO, it would be nice if that process was done by the fedora > folks and the resulting USB image was provided along with the > live images. That way, somebody that wanted a bootable USB > would have a choice of the live CD image (which seems to have > some vestigial organs as a result of its evolution from Live CD) > or a file that could simply be dd'd onto a USB stick. You could > even have different sizes with a different number of packages > for different size USB sticks. > Hmmm... I think I found something like what I'm talking about on the fedora 12 release notes: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Alpha_release_notes#Hybrid_ISO_images_-_Simple_and_Easy_Live_USB.27s Is that what I'm talking about or is it just an easier way to get the identical image onto a USB? Thanks, David -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
