Creating live USB keys in Windows

Luke Macken lmacken at redhat.com
Mon Feb 4 06:06:27 UTC 2008


On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 12:31:55AM -0800, Andrew Farris wrote:
> Luke Macken wrote:
>>> It claims NTFS is unrecognized and only works well with FAT32.
>>
>> NTFS does not seem to be supported by syslinux.  Looks like we may be
>> out of luck with this one.
>
> Currently it bails out with the most cryptic thing possible.  A message 
> about not supporting NTFS and reformatting would help there.
>
> The same is true for a usb key without any partitions, or formatted ext2/3 
> as well.  Same message.

I've improved the error handling for those cases.  If you encounter any
more cryptic messages, please let me know.

    http://lmacken.fedorapeople.org/livecd-iso-to-usb.zip

Thanks!

luke




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