Hi Rick, Thanks for your quick response.
On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 1:26 AM Rick Stevens <ri...@alldigital.com> wrote: > On 10/29/18 11:31 AM, Danishka Navin wrote: > > Hi, > > I have to prepare hundreds of USB sticks which need to either papre as a > > liveUSB or make it as a installed system (using the USB as the storage > > when installing fedora). > > You can install to a USB stick if you want. Generally, Linux running on > any sort of a USB drive is quite slow, so keep that in mind. > > Yes, I know but this is to avoid misconfiguration of over 1000 servers across the country within a small window with less technical people in remote areas. > You could then clone the USB stick to other USB sticks via "dd" using > the raw, block devices. Assuming /dev/sdb is the drive you installed to > and /dev/sdc is the intended target: > > dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdc bs=4k,sync > > You could also make an image of the stick on hard drive using dd: > > dd if=/dev/sdb of=/somefilename.img bs=4k,sync > this means once installed ISO in to USB (completion of anaconda and post installation) create an .img ? > > then, if you have multiple USB ports (or a big hub), you could run > parallel "dd"s specifying different sticks as targets: > > screen 'dd if=/somefilename.img of=/dev/sdc bs=4k,sync' > screen 'dd if=/somefilename.img of=/dev/sdd bs=4k,sync' > ... > screen 'dd if=/somefilename.img of=/dev/sdX bs=4k,sync' > > which would run all of the dd commands in parallel screen sessions. > Sort of a poor man's bulk disk duplicator. I'd highly recommend that > you use USB3 if possible if you're feeding a hub to minimize the I/O > contention you'll get. > > You could do something similar if all you wanted to do was put the > LiveUSB ISO image on the sticks (replace "/somefilename.img" with the > path to the ISO image you're interested in). > > Be aware that generally writing to USB can be a pokey process > (especially if everything's on the same USB host port, USB3 or not), but > you get the general idea. > > Thanks again! -- Danishka Navin http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/danishkanavin
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