Foresight Linux installation usb sticks

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I always used Blastbits to create Foresight Linux installation usb sticks. But now i think i will use unetbootin instead, feels safer.

UNetbootin-eng

Installed unpublished Foresight XFCE 2.1.2 version into a 1GB usb stick. Worked fine, tried to boot it from usb stick, worked fine too. Could install xfce from usb stick.

Warning

But now someone told me that unetbootin may screw up the ISO dir structure, so beware when you are gonna try it.

I hope someone can confirm its ok or not when created a usb stick with unetbootin. (Foresight Linux ISO files)

To install it and try it out, open Terminal and write:

sudo conary update {mtools,unetbootin}=@fl:2-devel

Posted by Tomas Forsman   @   26 September 2009 3 comments
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Sep 29, 2009
22:02
#1 Erik Southworth :
Firefox 3.5.3 Firefox 3.5.3 Foresight Linux 3.5 Foresight Linux 3.5
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090914 Foresight Linux/3.5 Firefox/3.5.3

Was that a LIVE iso image? When I tried it, it only worked with LIVE media and not standard install iso. Also, unetbootin and blastbits destroy data and format the device. A 200gig USB stick ends up being a 198gig waste of space. I usually just extract the isolinux components and convert them to syslinux namespace, then install syslinux on the device. I can carry multiple iso files on a single device and boot any one I choose.

Author Sep 30, 2009
07:48
Google Chrome 4.0.219.3 Google Chrome 4.0.219.3 GNU/Linux x64 GNU/Linux x64
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.219.3 Safari/532.1

Wasnt i live iso image, thought it worked on every iso that was either live or installation iso. and yes it format the usb stick.
So i tried a installlation iso, could boot it up and start to install Foresight. Never went through whole installation, as i dont have a computer i can reinstall foresight on.

Apr 23, 2010
06:00
#3 jesse :
Firefox 3.6.3 Firefox 3.6.3 Foresight Linux 3.6 Foresight Linux 3.6
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100404 Foresight Linux/3.6 Firefox/3.6.3

uintbooin doesn’t format the whole disk, as I tried and as described on wikipedia.

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