Re: Booting F12 live DVD ISO image from USB drive

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On 01/21/2010 07:00 AM, jaivuk<jaivuk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote

> My goal was to setup multi-boot 8GB USB drive with FAT32 able to boot ISO
> image of different live distributions including F12 live DVD. I discovered
> that old grub (0.97) won't help and there exist two new grubs:
> - grub4dos - but it had problem to boot ISO DVD and it may be not fragmented
> - grub2 - it starts to boot vmlinuz but booting fails
>
> In my further research I discovered that Fedora live clones do not support
> "iso-scan/filename" kernel option so this may be the cause of the problem.
> (Ubuntu distros do support it and boot fine)
>
> My question is: Did anybody find any other method how to boot Fedora ISO (or
> DVD) image from USB drive without decompressing it (or without overwriting
> of the whole drive?)
>
> In the worst case I'm willing to decompress some folders - such as isolinux
> or EFI - but I definetely do not want to partition my USB.
>
> Iny ideas please?
>
> Thank you very much,
>

Read this thread:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=205596

Follow the instructions referencing F11 for F12 and it works 
beautifully. The instructions are missing the code to actually mount the 
USB drive before doing the copy to the drive, so be careful there.

Note that except for resetting the mbr on the usb stick, it is 
non-destructive, but you do need enough space for the iso and boot images.

However, the really nice tip is the last tip, to use isomaster to delete 
unwanted packages from the iso. isomaster works non-destructively so you 
only need some space on the hard drive if you want to keep a copy of 
your redacted iso, or you can write directly to the mounted usb drive. I 
deleted a mess of fonts and locale packages, reducing the iso to 2.2 Gig.

Another tip, if you intend to use a proprietary graphics driver, is to 
install using the 'generic' driver option. If you then blacklist 
nouveau, (still using the vesa driver) when you do your post install 
update, nouveau will not be included in the initrd, and you can install 
the nvidia driver without problems.
Geoff



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