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.

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