https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=441278 Summary: Live CD system should also run from USB stick Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Beta4 Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Enhancement Priority: P5 - None Component: Live Medium AssignedTo: coolo@novell.com ReportedBy: probono@myrealbox.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: Beta-Customer As netbooks become fashionable, so does running Linux Live systems from USB sticks. While openSUSE offers infrastructure to create special Live images for USB sticks, there should be the possibility to take a regular Live CD, copy its contents to a FAT32-formatted USB stick, install syslinux, and run the Live system 1:1 from a USB stick. This is possible with Ubuntu, Fedora, and most other Live CDs out there. In fact, for both Fedora and Ubuntu there are GUI tools to convert a running Live CD into a Live USB system (without changing the compressed filesystem or initrd). e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_USB_system_creator The changes required to boot the openSUSE Live CD image from a USB stick are not big. Essentially, the following would need to be done: The following kernel modules should be part of the Live CD initrd by default: * nls_cp437.ko * nls_iso8859-1.ko * vfat.ko * fat.ko The function "CDDevice" in file "include" in the initrd of the Live CD should be slightly extended so that the main compressed filesystem is searched not only on IS9660 CD-ROMs, but also on VFAT partitions, e.g. on USB drives. See the following page for a hack that makes it possible to run the Live CD image from a USB stick. Clearly, this would have to be implemented in a cleaner way that does not break the Live CD functionality. http://klik.atekon.de/wiki/index.php/CustomizeSUSELive#Making_openSUSE_Live_... -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.