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16 years 4 months ago #2433 by Jake
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I've downloaded the ISO image and tried various ways to make a bootable USB stick, but with no luck at all. I've tried Unetbootin, mkbt, Fedora Live USB creator, but none of them work. Has anyone successfully created a bootable USB stick from the CAElinux ISO?
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16 years 3 months ago #2457 by Jake
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neither will work because the sqfs file within the image is larger than 2 GB (limit for FAT16 file size, I believe). It should be possible to make a liveusb with EXTLINUX, but I haven't had any luck with it.
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16 years 3 months ago #2464 by Joël Cugnoni
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Hi,

I had managed to have a USB key version of CAELinux working (it was an older version, like 2007 at that time).

I used the procedure described here at that time:
www.pendrivelinux.com/all-in-one-usb-pclinuxos-minimezip/

It should still work with more recent versions...
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16 years 3 months ago #2469 by Jake
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Thanks much, I'll give it a try when I get home :)

Edit: Don't think it's going to work...the .bat file uses 7-zip to extract the files from the given .iso, and I already know for a fact that 7-zip won't open the CAELinux2008 iso image.<br /><br />Post edited by: Jacob A, at: 2009/01/13 16:36
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16 years 3 months ago #2484 by Jake
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Yeah, doesn't work. It skips the part where 7-zip is supposed to extract the contents of the iso onto the thumb drive. :(
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16 years 3 months ago #2485 by Joël Cugnoni
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Ok maybe the 7zip part does not work.. but you can still extract teh content of the ISO with other tools; for example (in Windows) with Iso-buster...

For the link on pendrivelinux, I am not 100% sure that it is the procedure I used, I may have used an older version...; what I can remember is that is have used:
1) the HP utility to format and make a bootable usb
2) extract an copy the content of the ISO on the USB stik
3) install a new bootloader (isolinux if I remember, I used a small exe provided on pendrivelinux to install it)
4) adjust the configuration of the boot loader

Unfortunatelly, I cannot find this older tutorial now on pendrivelinux.
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