Liberté Linux 2010.1 [LWN.net]

Liberté Linux 2010.1

Posted Nov 22, 2010 14:59 UTC (Mon) by loevborg (guest, #51779)
Parent article: Liberté Linux 2010.1

From the installation instructions:

1. Download liberte-201X.Y.zip from the SourceForge project site.

2. Extract the archive into the root folder of the media you want to use.

To make the media bootable:

3. (Windows) In liberte folder, launch setup.bat. You probably need to right-click and select Run as administrator in Vista and in Windows 7 read the console messages. (Linux) Copy liberte/setup.sh to a local directory, and run setup.sh /dev/XXX as root providing the (unmounted) media to which you extracted the archive as the argument. Syslinux (and GNU Parted if /dev/XXX is a partition) must be installed.

I wish Ubuntu would put its live media contents into a single folder as well, on a CD as well as on a USB stick. That makes it less scary than an arcane assortment of SYSLINUX.XYZ and CASPAR directory entries. Also supplying a setup.sh is sensible. We could even introduce a cross-distro convention how the layout of a Linux live USB stick should look like. Much better than the current state of affairs, which amounts to semin-reliable unetbootin, usb-creator and friends. The layout might be:

/ubuntu-10.04-live/live.ini
/ubuntu-10.04-live/linux
/ubuntu-10.04-live/initrd
/ubuntu-10.04-live/data
/fedora-14-live/live.ini
...

On boot, SYSLINUX or GRUB, which is installed with a single click by some program like usb-creator, would present the user with a choice of which directory (containing a live.ini) to base the boot on.

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