Hello,

This question more than likely has been posted before, either to
this or some other list. If so, then please let me know and I'll
start searching.

I want to make a Gentoo Live bootable USB stick using the available
Gentoo Live DVD iso. Can this be done by simply copying the iso file
to the USB drive with a utility like dd? Or are there some special files
that need to be copied to the boot sector?

Unetbootin (unetbootin.sf.net) is a GUI program that claims to do this,
but there must be a simpler CLI alternative.

Frank Peters

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Frank Peters <frank.peters@comcast.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This question more than likely has been posted before, either to
> this or some other list. *If so, then please let me know and I'll
> start searching.
>
> I want to make a Gentoo Live bootable USB stick using the available
> Gentoo Live DVD iso. *Can this be done by simply copying the iso file
> to the USB drive with a utility like dd? *Or are there some special files
> that need to be copied to the boot sector?
>
> Unetbootin (unetbootin.sf.net) is a GUI program that claims to do this,
> but there must be a simpler CLI alternative.
>
> Frank Peters
>
>

Hi Frank,
This is almost too easy to answer as I was wondering the same thing
just a couple of days ago.

<hehe> In Google try

Gentoo USB live CD

which yields:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml

Don't know if it works but like all things Gentoo I suspect it does...

HTH, ;-)
Mark