Re: Writable partition for D-I ISO images
Hi!
On 2023-12-20 08:47, Roland Clobus wrote:
> A few months ago another approach was presented on the live-build project:
> for computers that are able to boot with EFI (secure or not), preparing a
> live USB-stick (based on the ISO file) is nearly trivial [1]. It is called
> FST (File System Transposition) [2].
>
> It requires a FAT32 formatted USB stick on which the whole (including the
> hidden .disk folder) content of the ISO file is copied. There is no need for
> magic boot sectors, update-grub or similar. (On Windows the tool Rufus can
> do all this for you).
> Since the files are now on a regular FAT32 partition, they can be modified
> as required.
Without knowing that the method had such a cool name, a few weeks back I
documented it here: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/WritableUSBStick
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