Again I'm visually impaired, totally blind No working eyes So I'm not sure if the live cd will work for me I know centos have the sound muted so the gnome screen reader will not work I don't know if fedora have the sound muted -----Original Message----- From: users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of JD Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2011 11:32 PM To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Re: Bootable usb stick with the fedora install On 04/02/2011 01:30 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 7:49 PM, mattias<mj@xxxxxx> wrote: >> Yes I try to put the installer on the stick >> I do >> Dd if=cdimage.iso of=/dev/sdb >> Like the page says >> I don't have the link now > I have never had much luck with that dd method. I do the following > and have not had any problems with this method since I started using > it a year or two back: > > First I plug the usbstick in - and check the device name by looking at > /var/log/messages - let's say the device is seen to be /dev/sdb1. Then > *as root* I do the following (the # is the root prompt so the command > is after the "# ": # umount /dev/sdb1 > # livecd-iso-to-disk --reset-mbr > /home/mike/Documents/install_stuff/f14-beta/Fedora-14-Beta-i386-DVD.iso > /dev/sdb1 > > If you have an oddball file structure on the stick you can reformat it > at the same time by adding the "--format" flag to the above command > (without the quotes of course) Amend the path to the iso file to suit > the location and name of your install iso, and the correct device name > for your stick. This needs the livecd-tools package installed so > ensure it is there before you start. > > This works flawlessly for me in f14, and it did in f13 also. When I > boot from the stick it just boots to the installer and off I go. > That's exactly what I would recommend. It has always worked!! Just be sure you have done: yum -y install livecd-tools otherwise, you will not find the command livecd-iso-to-disk Cheers, JD -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
