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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