Feature changed by: jpxviii jpxviii (jpxviii) Feature #307551, revision 4 Title: Booting Live OS from a USB drive openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable + openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed + Priority + Requester: Desirable Requested by: Ben Metzner (bman22) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: I think it would be great to allow for a live session to be run via a usb key. Almost every live distro i know supports it as a feature, and even a lot of non-live-specific distro's have the option to run live from a usb key. If this could be incorperated in 11.2, or 11.3, it would be great. Just providing an ISO file to image to a usb drive would be great, seeing as the current images won't boot from a usb key. Use Case: Somebody who wants to be able to easily carry around multiple linux distrobutions, and boot them from a usb drive, or memory card reader in their computer. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: I want this specifically so i can image some sd cards with my favorite distro's (OpenSuSE obviously being one of those), and just reboot the computer with a different sd card when i want a different distro, instead of having to carry around multiple cd drives, as well as an external cd player for my netbook. Discussion: #1: H. Hansen (cyberbeat) (2010-01-14 20:58:08) Additionally I recommend to use casper fs for persistent storage. It has the advantage over hybrid iso, that the usb stick can be used as before and the installation on it is non destructive. And a gui utility (or rebranding of an existint utility) for making such an installation on usb stick easier for windows&linux. #2: Bernhard Wiedemann (bmwiedemann) (2010-07-14 04:16:49) Which parts of the above can not be done with current LiveCD isos? You can write them with dd onto USB storage of 1GB or more and use the remainder as persistent file storage. http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Live_USB_stick -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307551