Re: USB image

[Tron <tron@xxxxxxxxx>]

 Thank you Justin and you are right - your link does look interesting.  
Just prior to receiving your post, I found something similar myself:

http://www.ilovefreesoftware.com/14/windows/system-utils/download-unetbootin-free-bootable-usb-flash-drives-cretor.html

but after reading the cite you suggested would guess that yours is 
probably more capable.

I would love to test this out myself, but not being familiar with DF I 
probably would not get far beyond the initial command prompt (as was so 
cleverly commented on by others) so it would seem a more experienced 
tester would be better.  To further complicate matters, the test box I 
was thinking of using for DF experimentation apparently cannot boot from 
USB.  (It is an old 700MHz Celeron with a BIOS that cannot be upgraded 
or easily patched because the mobo is oem ie: unknown...)  Therefore, my 
options seem to be either to dig up a more modern piece of junk and 
spend some money on bringing it to life or give up on trying to start 
with DF with a ready GUI and try yet another time to make it through the 
DF handbook without being sidetracked by life...

Regards,
Tron.


On 9/29/2010 9:10 PM, Justin C. Sherrill wrote:
> On Wed, September 29, 2010 11:42 pm, Tomas Bodzar wrote:
>
> > When someone wants to go deeply in some area then there is only one
> > way - a lot of years of learning and experience. It does not change
> > just because we have Internet and PR materials from stupid vendors
> > talks lies. OS is very complex system - take it from the other side -
> > flying is so easy (at least for birds); why do I need to learn that
> > complicated stuff about mathematics, physic, meteorology and so on;
> > why there is not one-click-button-to-fly airplane? How about space
> > travelling? How about submarines? How about cars? Are you able to
> > create your own on same level of quality as from those companies? No?
> > Guess why - because you lack info and experience in that area as it's
> > not so easy and not because someone wants to be rude against you.
> The best answer when someone says "This doesn't work for me" isn't "You
> don't know enough" but rather "Here, let me show you how."
>
> To answer the original question, I haven't seen a USB drive solution that
> didn't involve some other steps - many of them require a Windows user to
> boot from a live CD image to use dd or equivalent to write to the USB
> drive, or rarely have a specialized program to write it out (Mandriva).
> I've heard of Linux installers that were able to understand a fat32 USB
> drive if files were set up a particular way, but it didn't seem to be
> easier overall.
>
> This looks interesting:
>
> http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/
>
> Would it work with a DragonFly image?  Please, someone try this.