boot question -- USB stick vs. DVD

[Walter Dnes]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 07:22:18AM -0400, William Park wrote
> Hi all,
> 
> I was running out of DVD to burn, so I tried dd'ing the iso image to a
> USB stick.  It booted okay.  My question is, can you put any iso image
> to USB stick (or spare harddisk) and boot?  Or, does it only work for
> specially prepared iso?

  It has to be specially prepared.  If it's not already prepared you can
  - install syslinux on your system and
  - run the "isohybrid" utility that's part of syslinux

  Detailed instructions are on the man page and in Google, e.g.
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-811070-start-0.html

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