On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 19:49 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > It's supposed to be possible to make a "live" USB stick out of a "live" CD > > image. I haven't tried that but I have sometimes installed Fedora using an > > installation DVD image and two USB sticks. I put the DVD image on one USB > > stick such that the ISO image was a file in the file system on the stick. > > Then I took the image file diskboot.img (which seems to be efidisk.img in > > Fedora 9) from the DVD image and wrote it to another USB stick such that the > > image became the file system on the stick. As I recall I first inserted the > > boot stick and booted from it. Then I inserted the other USB stick, selected > > the option to install from a hard disk, and gave the installer the path to > > the DVD image on the stick. > > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo > http://lifehacker.com/391067/fedora-9-puts-your-desktop-on-a-usb-drive > > There is a livecd-iso-to-disk script script on the live CD - you > will want that one if you want a system where you can save settings. I've been trying to use the liveusb-creator app/tool but it keeps failing. Under Vista(godhelpus) syslinux blows off with a reproducible error that I can't remember and under Linux it's a different error but the same general problem. Looks like there's no way I can get F9 installed on this frelling box! Just wants to make me kick eMachines and Micrsofts asses. -- Interesting Boring Blog - http://x-nc.blogspot.com A combination of insight and inanity for your reading pleasure -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
