Dazed_75 wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Eric Shubert > wrote: > > Dazed_75 wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Eric Shubert > > >> wrote: > > > > liveusb-creator is pretty cool all right. I'm putting CentOS > on a thumb > > drive presently though. > > > > I'm running Ubuntu Heron (LTS) on my desktop and didn't find > l-c in the > > repos, so I'm running it in my Vista VM. I'd rather not have > to go there > > though. Anyone know if there's an easy way to get l-c on to > Ubuntu > > (short of building the source)? > > > > -- > > -Eric 'shubes' > > > > Eric, thats becuase your are running the ancient Hardy Heron! Yes, I > > know why you are, but that is why you don't just have a menu > entry for > > creating a live USB from a CD or .iso > > -- > > Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry > > > > Ha! > > Will the menu entry let you create only a Ubuntu Live USB, or any other > Live iso (with persistence), as liveusb-creator does. > > -- > -Eric 'shubes' > > I stand corrected. I thought it would do any from a LiveCD .iso file > but it only does ubuntu apparently. Similarly, the Fedora usb-creator > only does Fedoras. In fact, I found someone complaining that he could > not use it on Fedora 10 to create a LiveUSB from a Fedora 11 .iso and it > turned out that was because 11 needed a newer syslinux. > > OTOH, unetbootin ( http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ ) will create many > different flavors and is available for both linux and windows. I > installed it in Jaunty right from the regular repositories. > > Or you might prefer FUSBi ( http://www.aligunduz.org/FUSBi/ ) which is a > unetbootin derivative which only does FSF approved free software only > distributions. > > -- > Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry > > The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain > occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive. > - Thomas Jefferson > I stand (sit, more like) corrected as well. I don't know where/how I got the idea that liveusb-creator can create a stick from *any* live iso. I've tried backtrack3 and samurai with no success. I'm seeing [creator:750] Unable to get GetVolumeInformation(A:): (21, 'GetVolumeInformation', 'The device is not ready.') in the log, but don't know how that relates to the failure. l-c goes through the motions and there's stuff on the drive, but the machine I'm testing with doesn't see the drive as bootable, even though the partition is flagged as such. I don't know if the failure is a bug or that some isos aren't supported. Sometimes that's the same thing. ;) I'll give FUSBi a try next. For the distros I'm trying to do, that /should/ be sufficient. Thanks for the links! -- -Eric 'shubes' --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss