On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Eric Shubert <ejs@shubes.net> wrote:
Dazed_75 wrote:
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> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Eric Shubert <ejs@shubes.net
> <mailto:ejs@shubes.net>> wrote:
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>     liveusb-creator is pretty cool all right. I'm putting CentOS on a thumb
>     drive presently though.
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>     I'm running Ubuntu Heron (LTS) on my desktop and didn't find l-c in the
>     repos, so I'm running it in my Vista VM. I'd rather not have to go there
>     though. Anyone know if there's an easy way to get l-c on to Ubuntu
>     (short of building the source)?
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>     --
>     -Eric 'shubes'
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> Eric, thats becuase your are running the ancient Hardy Heron!  Yes, I
> know why you are, but that is why you don't just have a menu entry for
> creating a live USB from a CD or .iso
> --
> Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry
>

Ha!

Will the menu entry let you create only a Ubuntu Live USB, or any other
Live iso (with persistence), as liveusb-creator does.

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-Eric 'shubes'

I stand corrected.  I thought it would do any from a LiveCD .iso file but it only does ubuntu apparently.  Similarly, the Fedora usb-creator only does Fedoras.  In fact, I found someone complaining that he could not use it on Fedora 10 to create a LiveUSB from a Fedora 11 .iso and it turned out that was because 11 needed a newer syslinux.

OTOH, unetbootin ( http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ ) will create many different flavors and is available for both linux and windows.  I installed it in Jaunty right from the regular repositories.

Or you might prefer FUSBi ( http://www.aligunduz.org/FUSBi/ ) which is a unetbootin derivative which only does FSF approved free software only distributions.

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Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry

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