[XCSSA] bootable usb stick from NetBSD boot disks

[X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio]

X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio wrote:
> You can use any Linux live CD and the package "usb-creator" that will give you 
> a bootable thumb drive PLUS the extra room becomes your home partition AND 
> persistent root that you can install packages to, atop the bootable image. 
> Not sure if this would work with a BSD or not .. I would imagine that you 
> would have to hack at it and have the equiv of cramfs BSD support or such.  
> Maybe John Baker can assist (being the resident NetBSD d00d).
>
> I touched on usb-creator at the last meeting.  I can give a demo on this at 
> this meeting if you want.
>
> Tweeks
>   
As awesome as "USB creator" is, it only works with Ubuntu iso images.
>From Crag's links I did find "Unetbootin" which says it will work
with any boot-able image. It also states it will automagicaly setup
a dual boot environment.  No persistent storage though.
Ubuntu Jaunty has a Deb for "unetbootin".

Chris L.