On 10/29/18 11:31 AM, Danishka Navin wrote: > Hi, > I have to prepare hundreds of USB sticks which need to either papre as a > liveUSB or make it as a installed system (using the USB as the storage > when installing fedora). You can install to a USB stick if you want. Generally, Linux running on any sort of a USB drive is quite slow, so keep that in mind. You could then clone the USB stick to other USB sticks via "dd" using the raw, block devices. Assuming /dev/sdb is the drive you installed to and /dev/sdc is the intended target: dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdc bs=4k,sync You could also make an image of the stick on hard drive using dd: dd if=/dev/sdb of=/somefilename.img bs=4k,sync then, if you have multiple USB ports (or a big hub), you could run parallel "dd"s specifying different sticks as targets: screen 'dd if=/somefilename.img of=/dev/sdc bs=4k,sync' screen 'dd if=/somefilename.img of=/dev/sdd bs=4k,sync' ... screen 'dd if=/somefilename.img of=/dev/sdX bs=4k,sync' which would run all of the dd commands in parallel screen sessions. Sort of a poor man's bulk disk duplicator. I'd highly recommend that you use USB3 if possible if you're feeding a hub to minimize the I/O contention you'll get. You could do something similar if all you wanted to do was put the LiveUSB ISO image on the sticks (replace "/somefilename.img" with the path to the ISO image you're interested in). Be aware that generally writing to USB can be a pokey process (especially if everything's on the same USB host port, USB3 or not), but you get the general idea. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - "Hello. My PID is Inigo Montoya. You `kill -9'-ed my parent - - process. Prepare to vi." - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
