[ubuntu-us-in] ISO to usb stick.

[Rob Ludwick]

You know it would be cool if the SYSLINUX boot loader could boot into an
ISOLINUX bootable ISO File on a VFAT filesystem.

It would just need to get the kernel and the initial ramdisk from within
the ISO Image.  The initial ramdisk could mount the VFAT filesystem,
loopback mount the ISO, and pivotroot() into the Live ISO image.

One could put different ISO images on a USBstick and multi boot them, as
long as the initial ramdisk knows how to properly mount root.....

--R


On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 07:19 -0500, Vern Ceder wrote:
> Yeah, I originally used the isotostick.sh to create usb sticks with the 
> OLPC's sugar interface (its original purpose), but I tried it with both 
> the liveCD and the alternate install this past weekend and it works with 
> them just fine - with two cavets.
> 1) isotostick.sh needs gutsy - it doesn't really work under feisty 
> unless you do some surgery, and
> 2) for the alternate CD I had to add a copy of the iso image as well, 
> meaning it took a 2GB stick.
> 
> Vern