[gentoo-user] Make Gentoo Live USB Stick
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
Re: [gentoo-user] Make Gentoo Live USB Stick
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 2:06 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, This is almost too easy to answer as I was wondering the same thing just a couple of days ago. hehe In Google try Gentoo USB live CD which yields: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml Don't know if it works but like all things Gentoo I suspect it does... HTH, ;-) Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] Make Gentoo Live USB Stick
On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:15:56 -0700 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml Don't know if it works but like all things Gentoo I suspect it does... That's the first thing that I tried, but it does not seem to involve the Gentoo Live DVD. For example, after following the procedure one comes to the point: Download the Gentoo Weekly Minimal Install CD for your architecture from your local Gentoo Linux mirror ... Huh? What happened to the Live DVD iso stuff? It's not mentioned. I ended up using Unetbootin from an MS Windows machine to copy the Gentoo Live DVD iso to a USB thumb drive. I'm just wondering if there is a CLI procedure to copy same from Linux. Frank Peters
Re: [gentoo-user] Make Gentoo Live USB Stick
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
Re: [gentoo-user] Make Gentoo Live USB Stick
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Frank Peters frank.pet...@comcast.net wrote: On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:15:56 -0700 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml Don't know if it works but like all things Gentoo I suspect it does... That's the first thing that I tried, but it does not seem to involve the Gentoo Live DVD. For example, after following the procedure one comes to the point: Download the Gentoo Weekly Minimal Install CD for your architecture from your local Gentoo Linux mirror ... Huh? What happened to the Live DVD iso stuff? It's not mentioned. I ended up using Unetbootin from an MS Windows machine to copy the Gentoo Live DVD iso to a USB thumb drive. I'm just wondering if there is a CLI procedure to copy same from Linux. Frank Peters I guess I'm misunderstanding a fine point here in terms of what you want to do. Immediately following those words the process does: (Create the /mnt/cdrom mount point if needed) # mkdir -p /mnt/cdrom # mount -o loop,ro -t iso9660 /path/to/iso.iso /mnt/cdrom So it seems to mount the ISO image. Is there anything other than a Gentoo Weekly Minimal Install CD anymore? Would it matter if it was a minimal ISO or something more complicated? I don't know. In my case I was looking into building a new machine that wouldn't have a CD, so I was wondering about using a USB drive vs maybe an external USB CDROM drive. If you are doing something where you require lots and lots of prebuilt programs on the USB drive then this ISO wouldn't be appropriate. Good luck, Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] Make Gentoo Live USB Stick
On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:06:49 -0400, Frank Peters wrote: 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? The latest Gentoo ISOs are hybrid files, able to boot from optical discs and USB sticks, so just dd it to the stick. -- Neil Bothwick C:\DOS\SYSTEM\BATCH\UTILS\API\DOCS\READ\STORED\WHERE\THE\HELL\AM\I\? signature.asc Description: PGP signature
