Ben Armstrong wrote:> On 25/02/13 04:09 PM, Richard Nelson wrote:
Not sure. I might mention that the hybrid iso image should be compatible with usb keys as well.Not merely compatible, but also because we switched to xorriso, you can repartition the usb key after writing the image to the usb key and use the remaining space (e.g. for persistence). So that scratches another reason off the list for using hdd. Ben
I have two problems to address: I. Creating media in a Windows(tm) *ONLY* environment.A. The *ONLY* wide band access I have is using a Windows machine - read local public library. B. At home I've a laptop physically dedicated to my Linux experiments. At any time it can not be
presumed to have an operable system.
C. My home Windows machine shall not dual boot Linux - how
do you keep Linux newbie errors
from corrupting must have primary machine, don't take
the chance.
D. I see the need for a "low pain" migration path from
Windows.
Is there a native Windows method to accomplish the same thing as
Quoting from http://blog.einval.com/2011/01/07 "Instead of having to specially prepare USB sticks for the installer, you can now simply use dd to write the image straight to the raw stick, e.g.:
# dd if=debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso of=/dev/sdXThe USB stick should now boot directly, showing exactly the same bootup screen as if you'd written the image directly to a CD. Yay!
"II. It would be convenient to have a Live Distro reside on a USB stick but have "persistence" and "swap" reside on a local harddrive. I would want the USB stick to wander between machines and possibly transport data files. Is this feasible?