2009-09-16.  A USB-based `live-cd' was needed for installation
of Gentoo onto a CD-free mini-laptop (Samsung NC10).


http://www.livecd.ethz.ch/usbdisk.html

emerge unetbootin
[ugly]

emerge ms-sys

su -c chmod 0666 /dev/sdb

fdisk /dev/sdb
(one partition [d,n] as necessary,  
# not essential to have just one partition, but need at least 
# one, big enough, able to be dedicated to the cause
 set partition-type [t] to `e':  W95 FAT16 LBA,
 set active [a]
 write [w]
)
# would need to repeat fdisk write as root, else replug the 
# usb stick and re-chmod it, to make kernel read new table

mkdosfs /dev/sdb1

syslinux /dev/sdb1

mount -t auto -o rw /dev/sdb1 /mnt/dsk

mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop knoppix-v6.0.1.iso /mnt/tmp

cp -r /mnt/tmp/* /mnt/dsk

cd /mnt/dsk && cp boot/isolinux/* . 

cp isolinux.cfg syslinux.cfg

umount /mnt/dsk