Comments on: Fedora Live USB Creator

By: fer

fer — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:46:55 +0000

I dont know if you resolved your issue. Im writing this because I spent several hours searching on google about this without luck.

After studying the structure of the overlay file I found how it works. Im currently working in a project that requires to install so many things on the live usb, and it was a pain in the neck to install one by one. What you need to do is the following, very basic steps and very easy to do. No complicated dd commands or iso creation.

Do the following(UNDER WINDOWS):

1. once you have the final usb installation, you need to get the System Volume ID. to do that simply plug the usb and goto system command (start -> run -> cmd.exe)

2. type vol DRIVELETTER: (for example if your drive is F: do vol f:)
once you do that you will get something like:

Serial Volume is: 0AD7-0FF0

3. Write down that number. Now, you need to download an application called VolumeID from microsoft. you can get it on http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897436.aspx. download it and unzip it.

4. take the new usb and format it. once formatted open a cmd.exe window and run the command volumeid(from your previous unzip).

volumeid DRIVELETTER: SERIALVOLUME
i.e. volumeid f: 0AD7-0FF0

5. once you do that you are “cloning” the serial volume from your original usb into the new one. Overlay files depends on this.

6. now open the liveusbcreator and create a live usb as you normal do. Once its finish just overwrite the overlay file (located in LiveOS folder). Make sure to label your usb as same as the original one. Once you overwrite the overlay file the usb is cloned.

I did this and works. Any further questions send me an email to fer507 at gmail dot com

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:38:57 +0000

Anyone try to backup or clone one of these live USBs with the persistent overlay? I created one, added a number of RPMs and content, and now I can’t back it up or copy it, even to a drive with the same capacity and using Acronis. Any way to reverse the process to create an ISO image? If not, what’s a reliable backup tool?

By: Paul Puri

Paul Puri — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 06:06:10 +0000

I tried it Fedora and it would not completely boot. Downloading Ubuntu right now to see if this will work. Wish me luck.

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:25:11 +0000

Sorry, I haven’t run into this error. I had an error early on where I was out of space on the thumb drive, but I don’t think I got that error.

Sounds like a corrupt ISO to me, but that’s just an educated guess.

Martin

By: Alexander

Alexander — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 04:52:08 +0000

a try to do this… but .. the program(usb creator),

“Extracting live image to USB device…
ISO extraction failed? Cannot find LiveOS
LiveUSB creation failed!”

Any Advice??.

please. ! help…. I need ubuntu hardy Live…

By: Thomas Nicholson

Thomas Nicholson — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:57:23 +0000

If you want to make a bunch of USB Linux images check out Unetbootin. I have a post about it on my blog (link http://nicholsonsecurity.com/2008/08/12/unetbootin/).

You can take almost any Linux ISO and it will package it up and configure the USB to boot. It even has a few preloaded so you don’t need to down load anything ahead of time. I’m working a lost lost of security related LiveCD’s.

If your looking for a simple USB Linux I like Puppy Linux.

By: Christian

Christian — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:31:54 +0000

It’s one of the only problems with being the IT Geek within the family!