Michael wrote:
Okay I know about zero people on this list “need” this, as I’m sure we’re all familiar enough with dd, but I’m not adverse to getting some extra QC eyes to spot typo’s or bad copy/pastes ;) .
How to create a Bootable USB stick, with free space, from an ISO image
http://inet-design.com/blogs/michael/how-create-bootable-usb-stick-iso-image...
Hopefully though, the ability to have free space for .bashrc, proprietary drivers, and whatnot on the USB after burning the ISO image will be useful to few of you.
I personally use debootstrap. After debootstrap is done I chroot and do grub, fstab and so on. It takes like 15-30min. depends on how much customization is required.
If I would need iso from the usb, I recall there are tools to create the iso from a local directory, but never had to do this in the past 12+y.
The part where I failed last time, was trying to setup UEFI and after couple of tries and reads various docs I understood I have to have booted with UEFI in order to setup UEFI - like catch22.
regards