On 4/11/2009 4:20 PM, psmith wrote: > David wrote: >> On 4/11/2009 1:50 PM, psmith wrote: >>> we were talking on this list a few weeks back about making live spins >>> available in a usb format instead of just an iso and it was said that it >>> would incur more work and that because of the script and program >>> mentioned in the title there was no need, well it turns out that >>> mandriva have made iso's that are both usb and cdr compatible, all >>> that's needed to put the iso on usb is a dd command, >>> dd if=foo.iso of=/dev/usb-diskname bs=8M >>> for more info check here >> >>> http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2009.1_RC_2#Hybrid_ISOs >>> is this something that fedora would consider? >>> phil >>> i don't know if that this is new info or not, or how they do it but i >>> thought it interesting and i think all distros should head this way for >>> live releases. >>> phil >> This one works well. >> liveusb-creator >> https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/ >> and it's already in Fedora 10 and up. You can make your own. :-) > like i said it was brought up that liveusb-creator and > livecd-iso-to-disk were available, but both of these are additional > packages and incur resource usage where as releasing an iso that is both > usb and cdr compatible saves resources and makes the step of writing to > usb a simple one, granted liveusb-creator and livecd-iso-to-disk are > easy enough to use but they are an additional download where as dd is > installed by default. i can see no reason not to use this dual format > for live releases, and if you think that because tools are available to > use the existing method is a valid reason not to move forward with other > more useful methods then i don't know what to say :-/ > phil So what you are saying it that you want all of the mirrors to carry both a CD ISO and a USB ISO? One each for Gnome and KDE. Ping. Both are the same animal guy. The same ISO that you would burn to a CD is the same ISO that you would write to a USB stick. It all depends on what you use to install it where. -- David -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
