Creating live USB keys in Windows

[Douglas McClendon]

Luke Macken wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> So, I wrote some code that will install a Fedora Live ISO onto a USB
> stick, in Windows.
> 
> It automatically detects all removable drives, finds your ISO, extracts
> it to your USB key, tweaks the syslinux.cfg, and installs the
> bootloader.
> 
> From a user perspective, using it is pretty simple:
> - download fedora
> - download and extract livecd-iso-to-usb.zip
> - drag fedora iso into directory
> - double click 'livecd-iso-to-usb.exe'
> - ...profit!
> 
> It has worked great during all of my testing, and Jesse seemed to have
> good luck with it today, but we definitely need more people to try it
> out before we can start recommending it to users.
> 
>     Documentation: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LukeMacken/WindowsLiveUSB
>     In action: http://lmacken.fedorapeople.org/livecd-iso-to-usb.png
>     The binary: http://lmacken.fedorapeople.org/livecd-iso-to-usb.zip
>     The code: git clone http://lmacken.fedorapeople.org/livecd-iso-to-usb.git
> 
> Comments/suggestions/patches/flames ?

Very cool.  Thanks.

I remember a while back when I last used that other OS, that it was a 
pain to do something as simple as burn an iso image to cdrom*.  If that 
is still the case, and if there is an OSS solution to that, perhaps it 
could all be bundled in the 'fedora burning tool for windows' package. 
Just a thought...

* yes, most users will have some 3rd party solution they are familiar 
with, but I still think it would be cool to not depend on such things.

-dmc