[gentoo-user] LiveUSB

[gentoo-user] LiveUSB

[Jason Dusek]

  I've recently created LiveUSB sticks from the Gentoo LiveDVD
  and LiveCD. (I'm trying to put Gentoo on an OQO.) It was
  pretty easy -- I was able to use ext3 even -- and I thought
  I'd share how I did that with everyone.

  The three steps are:

 .  Format the stick.
 .  Put the Gentoo stuff on there.
 .  Slap on the boot loader and configure it.

                                               Prepare The Stick
                                               -----------------

  For the DVD, you need a big stick -- for the CD, not so much.
  Let's say the stick is at `/dev/sda`. Using fdisk, create one
  partition on it, marking it bootable. (That part is explained
  all over the place.) When that is over, run

    mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1

  and then put the master boot record on the device:

    cat /usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin > /dev/sda


                                        Copy The Gentoo Material
                                        ------------------------

  Mount the ISO of your choice -- say it's at `/media/iso` --
  along with `/dev/sda1` at `/media/usb`. All you have to do is:

    cp -pPR /media/iso/* /media/usb



                                            Setup The Bootloader
                                            --------------------

  This is where my process differs from the tutorials for
  Gentoo. I lifted the idea from the Pentoo distribution (now
  defunct). You install the `extlinux` loader _to the directory_
  where the bootable stuff -- so it's okay to leave it all in
  isolinux.

    cd /media
    cp usb/isolinux/isolinux.cfg usb/isolinux/extlinux.conf
    extlinux -i usb/isolinux

  There will be a `extlinux.sys` file in there along side the
  configuration file after you install.




  That's it. I wanted to go with ext3 so I could have links and
  a large filesystem -- FAT16 won't take more than 2GB -- and
  I'm glad this was so easy with Gentoo 2007.0! It's too bad
  the tutorials out there don't make it clear the progress that
  has been made in the last year. USB booting is great -- I will
  likely exploit the ease of 'remastering' my image to good
  effect when installing on my OQO -- and I hope this email
  helps others out there who are interested in the topic.

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Re: [gentoo-user] LiveUSB

[b.n.]

Jason Dusek ha scritto:
>   I've recently created LiveUSB sticks from the Gentoo LiveDVD
>   and LiveCD. (I'm trying to put Gentoo on an OQO.) It was
>   pretty easy -- I was able to use ext3 even -- and I thought
>   I'd share how I did that with everyone.

Cool!
Post it on the Gentoo wiki!

m.
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Re: [gentoo-user] LiveUSB

[Jason Dusek]

Posted -- please let me know what you think:

    http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_LiveUSB

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Re: [gentoo-user] LiveUSB

[443-653-1569]

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Wow!

Didn't know it would be that simple, I've always had trouble with live usb
in the past, guess I'll give it a try.

Bill Roberts

On 23:47 Tue 22 Jan     , Jason Dusek wrote:
> Posted -- please let me know what you think:
> 
>     http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_LiveUSB
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] LiveUSB

[Jerry McBride]

On Wednesday 23 January 2008 06:28:51 am 443-653-1569 wrote:
> Wow!
>
> Didn't know it would be that simple, I've always had trouble with live usb
> in the past, guess I'll give it a try.
>
> Bill Roberts
>
> On 23:47 Tue 22 Jan     , Jason Dusek wrote:
> > Posted -- please let me know what you think:
> >
> >     http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_LiveUSB
> >


The only thing I could add is to mention the ebuilds for the tools you used. 
That said, it works for me.

Cheers.


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Re: [gentoo-user] LiveUSB

[Jason Dusek]

Please mention this kind of thing on the talk page.

I will go ahead and post your email this time, as well as make
the necessary changes.

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