Re: vbox to thumb drive
On Sunday 10 April 2011 09:19:01 am shawn wilson wrote:
> is there a program / script to convert a vm (virtual box in this case)
> to a bootable install on a thumb drive?
>
> i know i can do it manually. hell, i can probably script it with dd,
> qemu, grub-install, fdisk (figure out how to toggle boot flag from
> command line). however, i don't really want to reinvent the wheel.
I use 'remastersys' to make iso images for some of my vbox installs. It is not
part of Debians repositories but they support Debian, has a sources.list entry
to use.
I have just discovered 'UNetbootin', :
"UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for Ubuntu, Fedora, and
other Linux distributions" . It is in Debians repos.
Maybe put the two together.
A short cut to go from vbox to usb would be nice.
btw, systemrescuecd has a script located in the root of their iso, installs
systemrescuecd to a usb drive in one operation. I am not a coder but maybe it is
generic enough to adopt for other iso's.
--
Peace,
Greg
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