Re: [gentoo-dev] borked release media

[Fernando Reyes]

iirc the minimal install CD ISO is capable of booting from a USB device or any removable media by just running the following commands. 

# isohybrid image.ISO
# did if=image.ISO of=/dev/sdb bs=8192k

sdb being your removable device. Also keep in mind that any data on sdb will be wiped after running the dd command.

likewhoa  

Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote:

>On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 08:55:04PM -0800, "Pawe?? Hajdan, Jr." wrote
>
>> The serious problem here is that we need *new* users. A non-working
>> install CD is a really bad thing here, don't you think? ;-)
>
>  While we're at it, can we please also make a USB-key "install ISO"?
>I'm not asking merely because "other distros do it".  I'm asking because
>the situation has changed in the past half-dozen years.  Back in 2005 or
>2006, almost all machines had a CD and/or DVD, and many older PC BIOSes
>did not allow for booting from a USB key.  Fast-forward to 2012 (and
>soon 2013) and...
>* just about every PC is capable of booting from USB
>* quite a few netbooks/notebooks do not have a CD or DVD drive.  E.g. I
>  had to boot from a Knoppix USB key as my working environment to do the
>  initial portion of the Gentoo install on my netbook.
>
>  Yes, I'm aware of http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml, but even I
>have occasionally fouled up those intructions.  It doesn't exactly
>encourage new Gentoo users to have to go through that tap-dance.  Arch
>linux https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/USB_Installation_Media
>manages to have a dual-bootable (CD / USB-key) image as a standard
>feature.  In addition to installation, it would make the base of a good
>system rescue utility.
>
>--
>Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
>I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
>