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Re: live cd/usb projects?



On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 04:45:31PM +0000, T o n g wrote:
> Thanks a lot for the detailed instruction Rob, really appreciate it. 
> 
> On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:52:34 -0500, Rob Owens wrote:
> 
> > 9) With your USB drive inserted and not mounted:
> > 
> > (replace "X" with the proper letter for your device) dd if=binary.img
> > of=/dev/sdX
> 
> Several questions regarding this step:
> 
> - what's the underlying file system does the binary.img have, vfat?

Or FAT16. It doesn't really matter, though. See --binary-filesystem in
lh_config(8).

> - what bootloader does it use?

syslinux by default. Grub can also be used, but you'll miss the
interactive menu.

> - is there any other way to install the content, say copy into a ext3 
> partition?

Look at chroot/ and binary/ under the build directory.

> - how can I create an .iso file instea?

That is actually the default, if you don't use --binary-images usb-hdd

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