iirc the minimal install CD ISO is capable of booting from a USB device or any removable media by just running the following commands.
# isohybrid image.ISO # did if=image.ISO of=/dev/sdb bs=8192k sdb being your removable device. Also keep in mind that any data on sdb will be wiped after running the dd command. likewhoa Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: >On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 08:55:04PM -0800, "Pawe?? Hajdan, Jr." wrote > >> The serious problem here is that we need *new* users. A non-working >> install CD is a really bad thing here, don't you think? ;-) > > While we're at it, can we please also make a USB-key "install ISO"? >I'm not asking merely because "other distros do it". I'm asking because >the situation has changed in the past half-dozen years. Back in 2005 or >2006, almost all machines had a CD and/or DVD, and many older PC BIOSes >did not allow for booting from a USB key. Fast-forward to 2012 (and >soon 2013) and... >* just about every PC is capable of booting from USB >* quite a few netbooks/notebooks do not have a CD or DVD drive. E.g. I > had to boot from a Knoppix USB key as my working environment to do the > initial portion of the Gentoo install on my netbook. > > Yes, I'm aware of http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml, but even I >have occasionally fouled up those intructions. It doesn't exactly >encourage new Gentoo users to have to go through that tap-dance. Arch >linux https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/USB_Installation_Media >manages to have a dual-bootable (CD / USB-key) image as a standard >feature. In addition to installation, it would make the base of a good >system rescue utility. > >-- >Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> >I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications >
