On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:52:09 -0400, waltdnes@waltdnes.org wrote:

>   There are quite a few machines without CD drives being sold today, but
> none that I'm aware of that won't boot from a USB stick.  I believe that
> USB-stick images, rather than CD images, should be the default
> distributed boot images on the mirrors.  And think of all the CD's that
> won't end up in the landfill, after an install image is used once.

The problem is what size do you make the image, not all USB sticks are
equal. A simpler option is to use Unetbootin to convert the ISO onto a
USB stick.

Incidentally, you could try dd'ing the ISO to a USB stick, this works
more often that you might imagine.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

"It compiled? The first screen came up? Ship it!" -- Bill Gates