Re: Bootable Flash Drive Installation Scripts

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 7:15 AM, Robert Bernier
<robert.bernier5@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 February 2009 19:40:07 Richard Broersma wrote:
>
>> Has anyone or can anyone develop(ed) a shell script to install the
>> various .iso and .img files onto a flash drive?
>
> Please refer to this posting that I made on advocacy on this subject:
>
>> > - mount the stick and copy the image over to a FAT16 partition, which
>> > should be the primary one and set as bootable too as for example:
>> > mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
>> > cp -rf pg-live-image /mnt/
>> >
>> > - unmount and execute the following command (assumes requisite system
>> > tools "apt-get install syslinux mtools"):
>> > syslinux -f /dev/sdb1
>> > lilo -M /dev/sdb

Thanks Robert I will give it a try!


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