How to run the Alternate CD from USB-Stick?

[Brian McKee]

On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Hadmut Danisch <hadmut at danisch.de> wrote:
> OK guys,
>
> I got it running.

Cool - Nice to see you figured out a solution.
> That's how it works:
>
> * split the USB device into two partitions. A small one with
>  vfat and the directories needed for booting (copy from alternate
>  CDROM), copy isolinux.cfg to syslinux.cfg and run syslinux.
>
> * copy the iso image blockwise (dd ...) into the second partition.
>  (must be large enough, >= 720MB). It is important that it is
>  a iso file system.

Any idea what would have happened if you partitioned the stick with a
file system that understands symlinks like ext3?  I'm wondering if
that would have negated the reason for two partitons.

Brian