On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Frank Peters <frank.pet...@comcast.net> wrote: > Hello, > > This question more than likely has been posted before, either to > this or some other list. If so, then please let me know and I'll > start searching. > > I want to make a Gentoo Live bootable USB stick using the available > Gentoo Live DVD iso. Can this be done by simply copying the iso file > to the USB drive with a utility like dd? Or are there some special files > that need to be copied to the boot sector? > > Unetbootin (unetbootin.sf.net) is a GUI program that claims to do this, > but there must be a simpler CLI alternative. > > Frank Peters > > Hi Frank, dd works fine;
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/pr/releases/12.1/faq.xml#usb HTH, David
