On Sat, 2012-09-22 at 20:41 +0530, Manish Kathuria wrote: > On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 12:22 PM, JD <jd1008@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On 09/22/2012 12:44 AM, Manish Kathuria wrote: > >> > >> I need to use a USB stick for installing Fedora 17 on a system and > >> LiveUSB Creator is the program for creating a bootable Live USB > >> sticks. As per the documentation, we need to use the Live ISO image > >> to create a Live USB stick using this program. However, if the sole > >> purpose is installation, can we use the installation CD or DVD ISO > >> images for creating the USB installation media ? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> Manish > > > > Well, you could just dd the installation ISO to the usb stick, > > and then boot from the USB and install onto hard drive. > > > > I have already done that - with an interesting side effect. > > The system kept thinking that my USB stick was a cdrom > > and would not let me erase it (i.e. overwrite it). > > Perhaps I had done something wrong, I do not remember > > exactly what. > > > > Good luck. > > > > Thanks for your tip. > > Actually my objective is to create an USB installation media and then > delete a particular file (BOOTX64.efi) to prevent it from loading. As > you had mentioned, using dd changed the USB stick to a read only media > and showed its file system type as ISO9660. And as a result it did not > allow me to make any changes to the files in it. > > I also tried using the LiveUSB Creator with the installation DVD ISO > as the source and created the Installation USB and tried to install > F17 using it. But anaconda threw an error after creating the > partitions because it could not locate the yum related files in the > repodata directory of the USB. The files were very much there but > somehow their names were truncated during the USB creation process. > > So I think I will have to download and use a Live CD / DVD image only > for carrying out this Live USB creation exercise. Hope it will allow > me to delete the file(s) I need to remove. > > -- > Manish As I have said often you need to download unetbootin from unetbootin.sourceforge.net. This program will allow you to install a live USB version of maybe 100 different Linuxes , including F17 to a USB stick. Or it will install a download of any software on your machine onto a USB stick. -- ======================================================================= Sysadmins busy fighting SPAM. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
