Forwarding a msg from lmacken on fedora-devel-list. Luke has created a tool to get an ISO on a Fedora Live usb stick... on Windows. It makes it dead simple for Windows users to try (and switch to) Fedora this way, since everybody nowadays has a RS USB stick, not everybody have CD writers (X61 Thinkpads don't), or is willing to find/spend an empty CD. Good stuff. We should see how the msg could reach the world, non-Linux users. Debian has created something "similar" at http://goodbye-microsoft.com/, which is probably even simpler. Not sure what other distros have done. How about creating http://switch.fedoraproject.org/, which will have some simple instructions on how to get the tool, get the ISO, run it and reboot? Having the page localized as well, will probably make the message reach to a big crowd. Maybe it's too early for this, since everything is in flux, so let's think about it. -d ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Luke Macken <lmacken@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: 2008/2/2 Subject: Creating live USB keys in Windows To: fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx Hi! So, I wrote some code that will install a Fedora Live ISO onto a USB stick, in Windows. It automatically detects all removable drives, finds your ISO, extracts it to your USB key, tweaks the syslinux.cfg, and installs the bootloader. >From a user perspective, using it is pretty simple: - download fedora - download and extract livecd-iso-to-usb.zip - drag fedora iso into directory - double click 'livecd-iso-to-usb.exe' - ...profit! It has worked great during all of my testing, and Jesse seemed to have good luck with it today, but we definitely need more people to try it out before we can start recommending it to users. Documentation: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LukeMacken/WindowsLiveUSB In action: http://lmacken.fedorapeople.org/livecd-iso-to-usb.png The binary: http://lmacken.fedorapeople.org/livecd-iso-to-usb.zip The code: git clone http://lmacken.fedorapeople.org/livecd-iso-to-usb.git Comments/suggestions/patches/flames ? Thanks! luke -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list -- Dimitris Glezos Jabber ID: glezos@xxxxxxxxxx, GPG: 0xA5A04C3B http://dimitris.glezos.com/ "He who gives up functionality for ease of use loses both and deserves neither." (Anonymous) -- -- Fedora-websites-list mailing list Fedora-websites-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-websites-list
