Mike Cloaked wrote: > > > On certain netbooks the advertised method of making a Live usbkey may not > work - eg in my Samsung NC-10 that did not work when I first got it - and > it does not have a DVD drive at all! So I ended up making a live usbkey > using Unetbootin (google for it), and that worked fine. > > If you do want to use Unetbootin the basic method I used for the Samsung NC-10 was: since I only had XP running on the system, as purchased, I used UNetbootin running in XP to create a bootable usbkey containing PartedMagic 3.4 since I wanted to partition the drive before installing Fedora on it for added safety in case the install went wrong. http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNetbootin The PartedMagic iso is available from http://partedmagic.com/ So booting PartedMagic from the bootable usbkey that resulted allowed me to create two ext3 partitions (one to be used for root /) and a swap partition but also leave the original XP c: drive and shrink the d: drive to accommodate the linux ext3 partitions. There is also a hidden recovery partition which I did not touch. The intention was to use manual disk partitioning during F10 install to control where Fedora 10 would install and also to control how the non-root partition would be mounted. In this case I decided to use the Gnome LiveCD iso for Fedora 10 as the install media but to make a bootable usbkey for this using Unetbootin a second time and generate a second bootable Live usbkey. I still don't know why the method of making a bootable Live usbkey detailed in the Fedora wiki did not allow the system to boot from the key in this case. However the bootable key made using Unetbootin worked just fine which was why I took this method to install. I suppose it would have been just as easy to make a bootable usbkey copy of the DVD iso instead of the LiveCD iso although it would have been a little tighter on disk space since the iso would have to be copied onto the c: drive in windows to use with Unetbootin. It could have been done on another machine entirely of course if you have one available. No doubt other people will post their favourite method for achieving an install when no optical drive is available but these one or other of the methods outlined should get you going. Of course starting with an install to hard drive from a LiveCD image means that more applications will likely need to be installed after the new system is running and more work will need to be done to optimise the system later compared to a DVD install unless the system runs a basic desktop only and minimal server functions are needed. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/installing-Fedora-10-from-USB-Disk-On-Key-tp21873925p21880113.html Sent from the Fedora List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
