Creating live USB keys in Windows

[Tim Lauridsen]

Douglas McClendon wrote:
> 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
> 

There is a Windows version cdrecord available here[1], there dont need 
the cygwin runtime

[1] : http://smithii.com/files/cdrtools-2.01-bootcd.ru-w32.zip

Tim