My point wasn't to place the iso on the drive itself but format the drive, then manually extract the files fromt he iso. I don't think any iso program such as burn cdcc will see a thumb drive as a burnable device. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kerry Hoath" <kerry@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 12:20 AM Subject: Re: installing linux from USB? > Many installers do loop mount an iso off the thumb drive and are > configured to do so. Debian's installer can do that, as can Ubuntu's. > > They expect to load the kernel and initial ram disk, and then find the > rest of the installer after that. > Usually the kernel is loaded by a boot loader such as syslinux, grub lilo > or similar. The boot loader also has to understand and load an initial > ramdisk, then once that is all set the installer finds components from > there. > It can pick the files directly up off the thumb drive, however depending > what file system you have on the drive depends whether Linux or the Bios > can recognize it. > Whatever file system you use needs to be supported by Linux and preferably > support long file names unless you use the .iso file and the installer > loop mounts it. > > > Many bioses won't boot a USB drive unless it contains a FAT file system > either in floppy mode, (no partition table) > or on a primary fat partition complete with boot sector and partition > table. > This is the difference between booting USB floppy, and USB HDD support. > If booting from an USB CDROM it's an eltorato boot and different again. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Cody" <churst35 at verizon.net> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 1:24 PM > Subject: Re: installing linux from USB? > > >> Why burn the iso? just extract the files from the iso and then copy them >> onto the drive and boot with it. an iso program is not going to pick up a >> USB thumb drive because it is looking for a opticle drive/that is what >> those apps are designed to burn on. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Tyler Littlefield" <tyler at tysdomain.com> >> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." >> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> >> Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 11:36 AM >> Subject: installing linux from USB? >> >> >>> Hello, >>> Is it possible for me somehow to take an iso and write it to a USB key >>> so I can install debian like that? the computer I want deb on has a >>> messed up cd drive. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Speakup mailing list >>> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
