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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201104102036.55384.gomadtr...@gci.net