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On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:36:09 -0700 Galen Seitz wrote: > On 03/23/12 08:52, Denis Heidtmann wrote: <snip> >> >> This is very confusing to me. When I insert the stick that the >> Startup Disk Creator wrote, Ubuntu tells me that it is a 4.0 GB >> file system of type msdos. So I assumed that the .iso existed as >> a file (or folder) on the stick, but the stick's file system was >> determined by the format. What Startup Disk Creator did was put >> on the stuff to make it bootable (in addition to copying the .iso >> file). > > I suspect that Creator wiped any existing filesystem and created > an entirely new filesystem. It warned you about overwriting the > contents of the stick, correct? It possibly created a new > partition table too. After that, it probably installed grub or > syslinux, copied the iso to the filesystem, and configured grub or > syslinux to boot the iso. > > If you poke around in the mounted stick, you'll probably deduce > what Creator did. > Indeed. Here's a link to some information about creating a bootable USB stick: http://forum.mandriva.com/en/viewtopic.php?t=63493 Mandriva distributes a small installer image called all.img that can be used to install it in just about every way you might imagine, including over the internet, from a hard disk, and so on. The link explains steps to create a bootable USB stick and load syslinux and that all.img file. I've used this method successfully to load the installer on a USB stick. Robert -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk9s4sIACgkQ+qYMIUkNJCykBQCffbIVLLRElR/qzMFw9DaJ2oWM wSoAnjvI5KaEjVj7vQ1PqqgbCwWwTHy/ =j1wl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
