On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Rahul Sundaram <methe...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 06/05/2013 01:56 AM, Arun Khan wrote: >> >> Before the days of hybrid ISOs, unetbootin had it's usefulness. >> >> To my knowledge today, Debian, openSUSE, and the *buntu ISOs are >> hybrid i.e. you can simple dd=ISO_file to a pendrive or a hard disk >> and it will boot! No need for unetbootin. > > > Sort of. If you want persistence or encryption or not want to allot the > entire usb key to the distribution but preserve existing data, you still > need a specialized tool.
With 4GB pen drives for approx. Rs 200, I have a couple of dispensable sticks for install purposes. > Tools also have additional built-in checks which > are handy. Many users run dd against the wrong device and end up losing > data. True, my own staff has done it :( I make them pay for the data recovery fees, it is amazing how quickly people learn not to make such mistakes when it hits their pocket. > Often distros themselves do provide such a tool however and it might > be better to use that. > In the past I have tried unetbootin to create USB install images for CentOS without much success. Does the current version of unetbootin do it? Alternately, does RHEL/CentOS provide a similar tool in the Live CD version? -- Arun Khan Sent from my non-iphone/non-android device (অরুণ খান্/अरुण खान) _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
