How can i ad. a 2 Gig image to the USB Stick?

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kapsreiter
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How can i ad. a 2 Gig image to the USB Stick?

#1 Post by kapsreiter » Tue Feb 02, 2010 8:26 am

Hallo!

I have costumized installation cd s and i am looking for a way to isntall this sw with usb stick.

I now have the ultimate boot running on a usb stick

and a iso with for example 2 - 3 gb

how can i add it to the stick?
i tryed it under costumize it starts
but after 1 minute of opening i get an error "out of memory"

any ideas how i can do this?

1 hav a ready bootable cd and want to run the disk from usb booting

thanks
tom

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#2 Post by Icecube » Tue Feb 02, 2010 3:32 pm

How do you boot the ISO?
Download Ultimate Boot CD v5.0: http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/download.html
Use Parted Magic for handling all partitioning task: http://partedmagic.com/

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#3 Post by kapsreiter » Wed Feb 03, 2010 3:45 am

i tryed this

LABEL -
MENU LABEL Your own boot image here
TEXT HELP
Your help message goes here.
ENDTEXT
LINUX /boot/syslinux/memdisk
INITRD /ubcd/custom/myimagename.img
APPEND -

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#4 Post by delicatepc » Wed Feb 03, 2010 1:11 pm

Sounds like its trying to load the 2-3GB ISO image into RAM and runs out of memory (which sounds logical if you have less that 2gb of RAM). Also I may be shooting into the dark but I believe there is a limit to how large a image (ISO or otherwise) can be before you run into other constraints other than just physical memory available (say the bootloader only can read isos 4gb and less but you have 8gb of physical ram).

Depending on what the ISO (is it linux OS, Windows installer, etc., etc..) you can find a method on extracting it using Syslinux or grub to load up the individual files.

More info on what the ISO is will help.

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#5 Post by Icecube » Wed Feb 03, 2010 2:58 pm

If it really an ISO and not a hard disk image, you need 'APPEND iso' (but then your file normally would have .iso at the end of the filename and not .img)

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LABEL -
MENU LABEL Your own boot image here
TEXT HELP
Your help message goes here.
ENDTEXT
LINUX /boot/syslinux/memdisk
INITRD /ubcd/custom/myimagename.img
APPEND iso
How much RAM do you have? You need at least as much as the size of the ISO (a bit more if you want to boot this ISO).
Download Ultimate Boot CD v5.0: http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/download.html
Use Parted Magic for handling all partitioning task: http://partedmagic.com/

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