Gilboa Davara wrote: >> I started by dd-ing the DVD iso onto the single partition /dev/sdb1 >> on the stick. >> For some reason this did not boot, >> so I deleted the partition (with fdisk) >> and dd-ed the iso onto /dev/sdb . >> Maybe that was my error? > > You dd the image into the USB device. > The ISO already includes a (weird) partition table. > dd if=/xx/FedoraXXX.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=1M > > You *may* need to select USB-CD (instead of USB-HDD) in your BIOS boot > menu to get it to boot. Just to be clear. When I removed /dev/sdb1 (with fdisk) on the USB stick, and dd-ed to /dev/sdb exactly as you suggest, the laptop did boot and I was able to install on my laptop but the resulting system had only half-a-dozen modules installed (according to lsmod). I'm pretty sure the failure had something to do with grub2. I chose the custom layout, incidentally, as I wanted to keep Fedora-16 on another partition. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
