On 06/01/2015 08:37 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote:
On Jun 1, 2015, at 4:59 PM, g geleem@bellsouth.net wrote:
all of which brings me back to my original question;
how can i make usb stick bootable from linux?
It depends on how you put content on the USB stick. Typically, I just ‘dd’ the installation DVD to the USB device, that way there’s no messing around. You can also follow the instructions here: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
procedure described at pogostick.com is to copy a group of files contained in file 'usb140201.zip' to a usb stick, then from command line;
X:syslinux.exe -ma X:
which executes the "syslinux.exe" that was copied to the usb stick in above.
X: = volume containing usb stick -ma: -m = install an mbr -a = mark partition as active
oos 'syslinux.exe' command differs a bit from the linux 'syslinux'.
from reading 'man syslinux', i do not believe that i could have used linux 'syslinux' as it would install wrong files to the usb stick.
as stated in an earlier post, solution was to create a bootable cd of 'ntpassword' and booted it to remove all passwords. after doing that, i was able to execute 'syslinux.exe' on usb stick as admin. i now have 'ntpassword' on both cd and usb stick.
having used 'ntpassword' on win95, win98, xp, and nt systems, i will say that that latest release is easy to use just as earlier version that i have on a cd of 'austrumi 0.9.2' is. in fact, it is almost the same.
i will say that anyone who has to deal with oos should have a bootable of latest release of 'ntpassword'.
Of course, I have no idea how you’d do anything with an OS other than Windows.
do not feel bad, most oos users do not know how to do anything with windows, other than play games and music. ;-)
thank you for you reply and the link.