[Voyage-linux] USB Stick image as install medium

[Rainer Stratmann]

Am Saturday 18 June 2011 18:43:48 schrieben Sie:
> I may be missing something obvious, but every install of voyage I have done
> was by downloading the tar or zip file and running the installer... never
> the isolation
>
> I suppose you can just copy the files directly, create a boot partition,
> and manually install grub or Lilo.
>
> Point is that I don't see the need for a CD at all.. can you elaborate on
> what your situation is? 

I would like to boot from an iso image because I am familiar with that.
I also don't see the need for a CD in these days where USB Sticks with GBytes 
are available.
What's the problem to make the iso image USB Stick compatible like other 
distros also already do this way?

> Do you want to install on a machine with a CD and 
> install to a USB?
> On Jun 18, 2011 11:41 AM, "Rainer Stratmann" <RainerStratmann at t-online.de>
>
> wrote:
> > Am Saturday 18 June 2011 17:32:54 schrieben Sie:
> > > I boot voyage from USB right now.. from linux just run the installer
> > > and use they key as your target drive...
> >
> > But I want to use the original CD image.
> > If you don't want to use the installer (for what reason ever) then this
>
> would
>
> > be a good solution to install without needing to burn a CD.
> >
> > > Matt
> > > On Jun 18, 2011 11:30 AM, "Rainer Stratmann" <
>
> RainerStratmann at t-online.de>
>
> > > wrote:
> > > > With some Linux distributions is is possible to dd the image file to
> > > > a usb
> > > >
> > > > Stick.
>
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Putting_installation_media_on_a_USB_ke
>
> > >y
> > >
> > > > http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=usb
> > > >
> > > > With voyage it is not possible. I tried already.
> > > > I found out that therefore a new version syslinux is required.
> > > >
> > > > Alternately the usb images can build maunally with a special program.
> > > > Such as unetbootin.
> > > > http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
> > > >
> > > > Booting from a usb Stick would be environmental friendly.
> > > >
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