On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 10:38 PM, David Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 09:27:51PM -0700, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
>
>> The object is to take a Linux distribution as bootable ISO image, and
>> transform it into a bootable USB flash drive. It could then be
>> carried to other machines for installation.
>
> So does it need to do the bootloader hacking each time it tries to
> boot from the flash drive, or just when making the flash drive image?
>
The bootloader hacking is done to create the flash drive image. When
the flash drive is carried to another computer, there need not be any
OS resident on the hard drive.
The difficult part is that there is not much standardization in how a
BIOS boot uses a USB drive. Some treat it as a floppy, some as a
CDrom, some as a hard drive, some as a Zip drive. And then there are
the older BIOSes that don't boot USB flash drives at all.
I am still learning more about this. I made a clean installation of
Ubuntu 8.04.1 inside a QEMU emulator and will now try to do the
unetbootin thing.
carl
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