#!/bin/bash # # Copyright (C) 2012-2020 Ruben Rodriguez # Copyright (C) 2020 Andrew Engelbrecht # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA # set -e usage(){ echo echo You need to run this script as root echo Usage: sudo $0 distro.iso /dev/sdX echo Example: sudo $0 trisquel_11.0-fsf_amd64.iso /dev/sdb echo echo WARNING!: this script will delete all data on the whole disk you pass as the second parameter. Make sure it is your USB drive and not your internal hard drive! echo ANOTHER WARNING!: This script can bite your dog. Use it with care, backup your data. echo exit 1 } [ $(id -u) != 0 ] && usage [ $# != 2 ] && usage ISO=$1 DEV=$2 PERSISTENCESIZE=4096 # Size of the persistence file, in MB ISOTMP=$(mktemp -d) DEVTMP=$(mktemp -d) umount $DEV* || true mount -o loop $ISO $ISOTMP # Create FAT32 LBA partition taking all disk echo 'start=2048, type=c' | sfdisk $DEV mkfs.vfat -I -F32 ${DEV}1 -n FSF-LIVE # Copy the data mount ${DEV}1 $DEVTMP cp -vr $ISOTMP/* $ISOTMP/.disk $DEVTMP || true cp -vr $DEVTMP/isolinux $DEVTMP/syslinux mv $DEVTMP/syslinux/isolinux.cfg $DEVTMP/syslinux/syslinux.cfg # apparently running syslinux command when /syslinux/ and /isolinux/ both exist # leads to GRUB not detecting the isolinux directory. mv $DEVTMP/isolinux $DEVTMP/isolinux.bak # Create persistency file # dd if=/dev/zero of=$DEVTMP/casper-rw bs=1M count=$PERSISTENCESIZE oflag=sync status=progress # mkfs.ext4 -L casper-rw -F $DEVTMP/casper-rw # sed -i 's/noprompt --/noprompt persistent --/' $DEVTMP/syslinux/txt.cfg $DEVTMP/isolinux/txt.cfg umount $DEVTMP umount $ISOTMP # Set up bootloader, requires syslinux. version 6.04 has been tested. syslinux --directory /syslinux/ --install ${DEV}1 sudo dd if=/usr/lib/SYSLINUX/mbr.bin of=${DEV} parted $DEV set 1 boot on mount ${DEV}1 $DEVTMP mv $DEVTMP/isolinux.bak $DEVTMP/isolinux umount $DEVTMP rmdir $DEVTMP rmdir $ISOTMP #eject $DEV sync