[Live-demo] duplicating bootable flash drive

[Cameron Shorter]

Alex,
Can we please capture everything we know about USB creation into a howto 
in our wiki, so we can point people at it.

On 14/02/2012 4:43 AM, Alex Mandel wrote:
> On 02/13/2012 08:28 AM, Kurt Menke wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have created a bootable flash drive from the OSGeo-LiveDVD-5.0.iso&  I'd
>> like to make 20 copies of it.
>>
>>
>>
>> How can I duplicate the drive? There's obviously more to it than just
>> copying all the files from one drive to another. When I do that and try to
>> use the new drive to boot from I just get a disc error.
>>
>> Kurt
>>
> Sure part of the process includes partitioning and set the boot flag on
> the partition. Not things a copy can do. Usually you'll have to repeat
> the same procedure you used on the 1st drive using the usb creator tools.
>
> You might be able to write a script that uses fdisk and dd if you want
> to get fancy with it. FYI, we discovered at Foss4g when we had to redo
> all of them that you can do 2 at a time, and if you do the usb creation
> from Linux it only takes 6-10 minutes where windows takes 30-60 minutes.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
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