[Server-devel] RFH: Script to make installable USB stick

[Jerry Vonau]

Martin Langhoff wrote:
> As part of porting the XS to F9 I am moving from using live CDs to
> anaconda-based installer CDs. This has a fundamental benefit - that
> you can now upgrade from the CD as well as installing - but a
> downside: there are not easy tools to turn an installer CD into a
> bootble installer USB stick that "just works".
> 
> A couple of weeks ago I started an attempt at it, based on
> livecd-iso-to-disk. It mostly worked - anaconda did get bootstrapped,
> but it failed to find the RPMs directory. I haven't had a change to
> look at it further. Help with it would be appreciated (and probably
> useful to Fedora users in general).
> 
> Earlier discussion and patch:
> http://marc.info/?l=fedora-buildsys-list&m=121740636925259&w=2
> 
> cheers,
Need to see the usb's layout that you had in mind.
You were trying to do tree-install or a iso source install?

Might want to have a look at this thread:

http://www.archivum.info/anaconda-devel-list@redhat.com/2008-05/msg00016.html
I'm around for a couple of hours,

Jerry