On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 5:04 PM, <pete.goodeve@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Also, something I haven't been able to understand from browsing: what > exactly is an 'anyboot' image? I gather from one post I found that it > has both raw and ISO images. The one I dowloaded a while back, though, > seems to be much the same size as a raw image, so what does than mean? It's kinda hard to explain :) It contains the proper bits to look like an ISO image to the BIOS allowing it to be burned to a CD (note, however, that it actually includes a BFS disk image for the OS, not ISO + overlay like the real ISO type image), but it also contains an MBR to look like a hard disk image (and thus, can be dd'd to an HD or USB stick and the BIOS will boot it just fine). This is similar a funny trick that some Linux distros use (such as Moblin) which allows the same image downloaded to be burned as CD or written to a USB stick without any further fiddling with the file. In my testing, it works great on USB sticks - but I have only done limited testing with CDs. - Urias