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Thu, 11 Apr 2013 14:22:15 -0500
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On 04/11/2013 02:18 PM, Steven Haigh wrote:
> On 12/04/13 04:33, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
>> Instructions for making USB-Bootable installation disk for 64bit SL6.3
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> *snip*
>
> This seems like the long way... The method I've used is VERY simple:
> # dd if=/path/to/iso of=/dev/usbstick
>
> Then boot from the USB stick. I've done this for a netinstall of Fedora, SL, 
> etc etc for a long, long time.
>

I've found 'livecd-iso-to-disk' from the livecd-tools package found within 
sl-addons[1] (previously in SL itself) to be an excellent utility.

Thanks Urs for your work here!

Pat

[1] http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6x/addons/

-- 
Pat Riehecky

Scientific Linux developer
http://www.scientificlinux.org/

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