[SoaS] LiveUSB Duplication coming to SoaS

[Dave Bauer]

On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Sebastian Dziallas <sebastian at when.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been looking on (and discussing with Martin) ways to replicate USB
> keys directly from a running SoaS and have now a first incarnation of a
> script ready. It has been merged into GIT, but for now, you can also
> grab it from here: http://sdz.fedorapeople.org/liveusb-to-liveusb.sh
>
> This might go away soon, though. To run the script, just execute it from
> the terminal and provide it with the location of your second USB key
> (the one you want to copy the image to). Here's an example call:
>
>    sudo sh ./liveusb-to-liveusb.sh /dev/sdc1
>
> So what does this script do? It basically runs livecd-iso-to-disk as
> described in RHBZ #448030 and copies in the end some missing stuff over.
> Finally, it adjusts the kernel arguments to make sure you're able to boot.
>

Interesting. I duplicated quite a few sticks just using
livecd-iso-to-disk and it seemed to work fine. If there a link I can
see what is missing?


> Limitations include currently no way to set up an overlay without
> pondering with the script itself. Please test it and let me know how it
> goes!

Hmmm. Again I was under the impression using livecd-iso-to-disk was
able to create an overlay.
Perhaps I should check again.

Dave
>
> --Sebastian
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