On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Aymeric Mansoux <[email protected]> wrote:
> patches and doc are welcome ;) > And, a draft. I'm not sure if #2 is really necessary - is there a way to use the live cd/dvd as an iso? It wasn't evident to me and it seemed easier at the time just to mount the mac filesystem. """ 1. Burn the .iso disk image as a bootable CD or DVD -- e.g., on my Mac, I had to go to disk utility and "burn image." 2. Make sure the .iso file you downloaded is available on the file system of the machine where you're going to prepare the USB stick. It's OK if it's a Mac or NTFS partition -- puredyne can mount them. 3. Boot from the disk. (Or, if you have a virtual-machine app, you could boot right from the iso.) 4. Open an xterm window (terminal icon near lower left), then mount the location of the iso. It might take some trial and error to find out which device to mount. Hard disks and USB drives attached to the system are under /dev/sd(a,b,c...), with a number suffix for partitions. The partition editor gparted can help you find the device ID by size (but note, DON'T make any changes with gparted!): gksudo gparted Then use the drop-down menu at top right to look for the volume that's the same size as the iso location. For instance, on a machine with a 120GB hard drive, /dev/sda shows 111.79 GB and /dev/sdb shows 3.77 GB -- so obviously sda is the built-in hard drive and sdb is the memory stick. sda1 is the HD's first partition; sda2 is the second and so on. Also, while in gparted, look for the device ID for the USB stick that you're going to prepare. Once you know that, do this, including the partition number. sudo mkdir /media/iso sudo mount /dev/[name] /media/iso e.g., sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/iso If it's a Windows partition, you might need to specify filesystem type: sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/[name] /media/iso 5. The rest is easy. Use "CD" or "DVD" depending on which you downloaded and replace "path/to" with the real iso location. sudo make-live-device.sh /media/iso/path/to/puredyne-910-carrot_and_coriander-DVD.iso /dev/sd# (where # is the letter of the target USB stick -- don't include the partition suffix! Write sdc rather than sdc1.) It'll take a few minutes, but then you'll have a persistent live bootable stick. It will make a smaller partition at the beginning for the iso contents and then use the rest of the stick to save any files that you changed or added later. So it's a good idea to get a stick with more space than you will actually need for the iso. """ James -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world [email protected] http://www.dewdrop-world.net "Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted, Sing me the universal." -- Whitman
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