Hi Simon,
Now that is an interesting idea, DD quite possibly could work. I would
be curious how she pulled this off. Did she DD an iso perhaps? THat would
certainly answer some questions.
tnx,
On Jan 12, 2010, at 3:17 AM, Simon Fogarty wrote:
> A workmate of mine has done it, she took a ubuntu live disk and using I
> think it was DD converted the disk into a bootable image then loaded that on
> to the usb drive and we use it now for antivirus scanning of laptop
> machines
>
> If I can get instructions off her, I'll pass them on.
>
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> Subject: Re: using fdisk
>
> Hi Scott,
>
> You wrote:
>> Have any of you used fdisk from the Terminal in order to set the
> boot flag on a file system, which is contained on a USB flash drive/Thumb
> drive? I want to creat a bootable usb stick that I can load a small Linux
> distro on.
>
> I haven't, but I will look into it for you if you like. In theory, there
> should be no problem using fdisk as the Terminal is pretty accessible with
> Voice Over.
>
> TC
> James
> On 11 Jan 2010, at 02:01, Scott Howell wrote:
>
>> Folks,
>>
>> Have any of you used fdisk from the Terminal in order to set the
> boot flag on a file system, which is contained on a USB flash drive/Thumb
> drive? I want to creat a bootable usb stick that I can load a small Linux
> distro on.
>>
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