* Jesus Cea <j...@jcea.es> [2010-09-22 04:57]: > I am mirroring the ISO/USB BitTorrents, and I am wondering why there are > two USB versions. > > One of the versions make a bootable USB copying with "dd". > > The other version is only an image of a root partition. No partition > table, no boot sector, no grub. What is the practical use of it?. Maybe > to copy it inside an already partitioned (big) USB?. In that case, would > be nice to have instructions of how to boot it in this configuration. In > the wiki there is a method described, but it overwrite the USB, > basically being equivalent to the "dd" way.
One is the stock image as produced by distro-constructor which requires a special tool to construct the partition table and bootsector for you, i.e. usbcopy on Solaris or the Live USB Creator for Windows. The other one is a dd'able image which includes both and has been created manually for convenience. All of the above will overwrite the contents of your flash media, though. -- Guido Berhoerster _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
