boot question -- USB stick vs. DVD
William Park
opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org
Wed Jul 18 15:11:19 UTC 2012
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:40:22AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
> 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
Thanks. Bookmarked.
--
William
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists
More information about the Legacy
mailing list