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Re: [trinity-users] Hybrid Live Images

From: "Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <office@...>
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2015 23:14:40 +0100
Am Sonntag, 29. November 2015 schrieb Timothy Pearson:
> >   To the hardworking Devs and ISO-builders,
> >      Please, that's pretty please with sugar on top, can we have
> > hybrid .ISOs for the expected new batch of live CDs/DVDs with TDE
> > R14.0.2??   My reasons for asking ....
> >    1.  Many modern PCs and most laptop/netbooks do not have an optical
> > drive.
> >    2.  I know there are utilities for writing an ISO to a USB-stick but
> > they are not particularly user-friendly.  eg. unetbootin is a total
> > PITA.  Besides a simple "sudo dd if=path-to-hybrid of=/dev/usb-stick"
> > is trivial and works as expected.
> >    3.  Boot and run from a USB-stick is much faster than any CD/DVD so
> > demonstrating to potential new adopters is a better experience.
> >
> >
> > Thanks in antic,
> > Glen
> 
> Do you have a link to how to build the hybrid images (from the command
> line is preferred)?  I haven't looked into that technology as I tend to
> build live USB images with unetbootin.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Tim

Hi Tim!

This might be a pointer to the right direction (but I never used it):
http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Isohybrid

Nik