live-fat-stick

Edit Package live-fat-stick

Create multi boot USB stick/hard disk with whole iso/s on vfat/fat32 partition
keeping existing data untouched.

run this command as root (su -, not sudo)
live-fat-stick isopath stickpartition
e.g.:
live-fat-stick /home/geeko/openSUSE-Edu-li-f-e-12.2-1-i686.iso /dev/sdXY

To add various distribution iso to the stick, run the following:
For openSUSE : live-fat-stick --suse /path/to/openSUSE-filename.iso /dev/sdXY
For Ubuntu : live-fat-stick --ubuntu /path/to/ubuntu-filename.iso /dev/sdXY
For Mint : live-fat-stick --mint /path/to/mint-filename.iso /dev/sdXY
For Fedora : live-fat-stick --fedora /path/to/fedora-filename.iso /dev/sdXY

isopath should be full absolute path of iso image and the device should be
actual partition on the stick like /dev/sdb1, /dev/sdc1,/dev/sdc2...

The stick partition has to be vfat/fat32 format.

run live-fat-stick -l(or --list) to list the possible usb storage devices available.

It is possible to boot multiple distributions and iso images from same device,
should work with all recent openSUSE or Ubuntu live iso images. Fedora iso is
not copied but is extracted as it does not support booting from iso.

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Source Files
Filename Size Changed
INSTRUCTIONS.fat.txt 0000002093 2.04 KB
INSTRUCTIONS.grub.txt 0000002022 1.97 KB
INSTRUCTIONS.gui.txt 0000000859 859 Bytes
live-fat-stick 0000016300 15.9 KB
live-fat-stick.changes 0000005432 5.3 KB
live-fat-stick.spec 0000003659 3.57 KB
live-grub-stick 0000015714 15.3 KB
live-usb-gui 0000006306 6.16 KB
live-usb-gui.desktop 0000000231 231 Bytes
Latest Revision
Dominique Leuenberger's avatar Dominique Leuenberger (dimstar_suse) accepted request 674438 from Marguerite Su's avatar Marguerite Su (MargueriteSu) (revision 12)
- The description is not supposed to be a manual: trim instructions.
- Replace %__-type macro indirections.
- Use noun phrase in summaries.
- Update descriptions.
- Add lsb-release requirement, fixes BSC #1093817
- Remove fuseios requirement
- Support for ix86 arch on openSUSE
- Support new kiwi-live for newer openSUSE images
- tag 0.4.2 version
- use --force to install grub
- more explanations in GUI
- live-usb-gui only show available scripts
- get correct exit status, xterm always returned 0
- compare image size after copy
- Check iso size, vfat does not support file larger than 4G
- live-grub-stick support openSUSE install media iso on
  non-vfat partition
- Require qemu-tools to create cow file for persistence
- added --suse-persistent and --ubuntu-persistent
  with these options a cowfile is created to store changes
  made while in live mode
- many cross distribution fixes
- Shortname for Li-f-e
- Add syslinux availability only on ExclusiveArch ix86 x86_64
  as suggested by dmueller@suse.com
- disable suse specific macros on other distros
- more cleanups, remove duplicated mounts, check before mounting
- Add ipxe network boot support
- Add live-grub-stick to create multiboot USB using grub2
- fixes for isoname and path with spaces in them
- use by-path instead of by-id to detect usb storage devices
- Fix live-fat-stick then ISO filename contains spaces
- use fuseiso to mount iso image instead of mount
- dd_rescue optimization
- live-fat-stick now supports --isohybrid option
- live-usb-gui supports isohybrid and be nice
- minor fixes
- add live-usb-gui
- supports ubuntu and fedora as well, see live-fat-stick -h
  for syntax change
- better handling of iso already on stick
- cleanup, allow using iso already on usb stick
- live-fat-stick -l to list possible usb sticks
- initial package
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