[XCSSA] bootable usb stick from NetBSD boot disks

X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio xcssa at xcssa.org
Thu Jul 16 23:39:35 CDT 2009


On Thursday 16 July 2009 02:37:35 am X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio 
wrote:
[...]
> 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.

That's what I love about usb-creator.. I get to install all my favorite data 
recovery, network admin and forensic tools.. and they stay with me wherever I 
go. (not to mention other personal apps like email, GPG & ssh keys, etc!  
However, Fedroa does this now too, plus uses GRUB instead of ISOLinux.. so 
it's a bit more flexible (can even chainload boot windows off a hard drive, 
boot into memtest86, etc).

But I think that the original question was about creating live BSD boot USBs.  
Here's a great article on this topic:
	http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20060619#firstlook

There's even a NetBSD Live! :)

I bet John would love to carry his own USB bootable NetBSD around in his 
pocket. :)

Want other Linux distros, check out portable linux:
	http://rudd-o.com/new-projects/portablelinux

Tweeks


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