Anyone ever have any success doing this when making the bootable USB Key under linux, from an ISO image.

I've tried various tools that are still in the works to make this happen easy.

I've done the long argious methods with some semi success (syslinux launches, but fails eventually)

Seems the partial method was the more complicated one.
By following the 'long method' on this site
http://learn.clemsonlinux.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Install_from_USB_drive


Then moving the files to root partion



Didn't help that I was using mythBuntu instead of a regular Ubuntu iso.

You'd think there would be a stoopid proof method by now.

Just want to do Slax (usb img version is a total fail for me too), for this computer. Then mythBuntu for the new system.

This is more about peoples success at doing it, and what rules they followed to do it.

nardvark

This tool was just mentioned on another forum, and I thought it might answer your question (no personal experience).
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

that's cool

I have a question
anyone know of something that you can boot into on startup
it will let you browse a hardrive
and then you can continue booting from an ISO file on the drive?
lets say I have a ubuntu or acronis disk in iso format on a flash or hd
id like to boot up to a simple loader, browse for the iso and boot it.

I've wanted this for a while.

I don't know about browsing, but I assume you can use the interactive capability of GRUB (the console, for example) to boot an arbitrary ISO. Again, I can't say from experience.

I was thinking that idea to myself, that would be so handy.

Fail, I'm gonna blame Intel for all this pain.
One last attempt, gonna move my unetbootin install on the flash drive to root partiion with the dd crap.

AFter that, good thing Chaggy gave me some media to burn on.

WOO HOO that worked!

unetbootin + the dd stuff = woo hoo!

Laugh... seems it works best with LiveCD's, not the boring ALT CD's. It uses a script to fakey the CDrom drive, but that is only loaded sometime during boot of a LiveCD, not a console install.

woot! i was force to get mythbuntu working from a usb key this time round. dvd drive shows up corrupted on one system. pah.

anyways
9.10 mythbuntu

followed this guide
http://www.debuntu.org/book/export/html/160

did the obvious changes necessary
the code for syslinux.cfg is different for mythbuntu, but by looking at the configuration file it loads up different cfg file. so made the obvious changes to that but still keeping in tune with mythbuntu's structure.

and then since on these two intel atom boards it can't handle a normal usb boot, you have to move the first partion to the root of the drive too boot it. by doing ...



and voila!

I used a 1GB super ass slow usb key. fuck its slow.