Re: cat'ing remastered iso's direct to usb?
On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 09:00:34PM +0000, Ryan Braun [ADS] wrote:
> Hey guys, love that squeeze can be cat'd direct to the usb device for usb
> installs. I've remastered a squeeze kde install image, it burns and installs
> fine from dvd (theres more then just squeeze on it), but when I try to cat it
> to the usb drive, it won't boot like a stock squeeze iso.
>
> So my question, is there some kind of magic that needs to be done to the iso
> in order to be able cat squeeze.iso > /dev/sdb?
>
> FWIW here is my mkisofs command used to generate the image.
>
> mkisofs -o $ISONAME -r \
> -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat \
> -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 \
> -boot-info-table $MASTER
mkisofs isn't enough.
I believe xirroso is involved. See http://blog.einval.com/2011/01/07
for example.
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Len Sorensen
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