[Live-demo] hybrid dvd and usb drive ISOs possible

[Cameron Shorter]

On 20/08/10 21:12, Hamish wrote:
> fyi, with the Debian live-helper method it is now possible to create a
> single hybrid ISO which can be either burned to a DVD or dd'ed directly
> to the USB drive*. no need to use the "Make Startup Disk" app.
>
>    http://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2010/07/msg00171.html
>
> I don't know if this means you can get away from formatting as fat32
> (highly inefficient on>gb partitions), or if that stems from a
> limitation of common BIOSes.
>
> [*] e.g.:  dd if=liveboot.iso of=/dev/sdc
>    

Interesting. From reading the article, it is still looking very alpha. I 
assume that we would start making use of it in our build once this 
functionality is rolled into Ubuntu?

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