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On Thu, 2 Oct 2014 21:11:03 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> What I'm wondering is why all the blog posts, wiki pages, and HOWTOs |
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> showing either the complicated command-line procedures or |
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> dependency-heavy "USB creator" apps? (Many of them quite recent.) |
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There is no need for them. |
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> Did this work because the Xubuntu people do something special when |
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> creating the ISO image? (If so, then they have my thanks!) |
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They did something, but it's not particularly special. All they did was |
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run isohybrid (from syslinux) on the ISO image. It uses unused space at |
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the start of the DVD ISO specification that is normally left blank to |
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hold a partition table so the image can be copied to a USB drive and |
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appear as a partitioned disk. |
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I use it all the time with the Linux Format cover DVDs, not only to make |
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sure that they are USB bootable but also to ensure that any ISOs on the |
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DVD are also USB bootable. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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There is absolutely no substitute for a genuine lack of preparation. |
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