Live CD : can it be put on a USB stick instead ?!

[Thomas Beckett]

Certainly is possible.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LiveUsbPendrivePersistent
Havent tried it myself, but i will be this weekend!

Tom

On 3/17/07, Vincent Trouilliez <vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:
> Hi guys (and girls),
>
> The more I spend time fiddling with Feisty Live CDs to track
> development and report bugs, the more I am annoyed by the slowness
> (and noise) of the CD drive every time it needs to access anything.
> It really feels like middle age compared to the cutting edge OS that it
> holds...
> With 1GB USB stick costing only 15 Euros, and every computer having a
> USB port, and USB sticks having a much better access time than optical
> drives, as well as being silent, and convenient/small/rugged, well I was
> wondering if it would be possible to put the Live CD image on a USB
> stick and boot from that ? I understand it's a bit simplistic/naive,
> but you get the idea... is there a way as of today, to achieve this one
> way or another, or is it just a dream ? ISTR that recently Mandriva had
> something like this. They sold a USB stick which served as a Live "CD",
> well how to put it.. "environment", and part of the USB stick could be
> used to store data. Would be cool if Ubuntu, on top of ISO CD/DVD
> images, provided images that could go to a USB stick. I might try to
> push the idea, if it's not already in Launchpad somewhere as a spec.
> I think (?) that ISO images can only be written to the same media type
> that they were created from (?), so I don't even dream that I could
> "burn" the CD ISO on to a USB key, of course.. But, could it be
> possible to just copy the ISO file on the USB stick, then add a small
> program that would be booted by the motherboard, which then mounts the
> ISO, and works from there ?
> Or maybe could it be possible to mount the ISO, then copy all the files
> in it, onto the stick, and make the stick bootable ? How can one make a
> USB stick bootable, I rush to ask ??
> Anyway, you got the point...basically, is there ANY way at all, to use
> the Live "CD" from a USB stick/external hard drive/whatever USB storage
> device ?
>
> Thank you !
>
> --
> Vince, did try to be concise... will try harder next time...
>
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