On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:21:20AM -0700, Mike Cloaked wrote: > > I have an interesting phenomenon for install (failure) off a usbkey for F11 > that I would like to understand. > > I used the method at > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB#How_to_Make_a_bootable_USB_Drive_to_Install_Fedora_11_instead_of_using_a_physical_DVD > (which I wrote), to try and install F11 on a Samsung NC10 netbook. The > livecd-iso-to-disk command was executed on a machine running up to date F11 > to create the bootable key. I've run into trouble with that method--it seems as if it might be dated, though I haven't really tested it enough to have an intelligent opinion, because... > > I then used unetbootin to install the boot.iso file onto the same key, and > the NC10 immediately booted to the install just fine. Like you, I found that unetbootin is an easier method if one has a GUI running, and seems to have a higher success rate. I'm sure there are logical reasons, and the downside is that it requires X to be running. (Also, at least in the earlier versions, one had to do a few little tricks to get it working on a Fedora system, though they were trivial.) > > I found this weird and although I have managed to do the install now I > wondered if there was a rational explanation why the Fedora method failed > but the unetbootin method worked in this case? Has anyone else experienced > this? See above. :) I've just found it to be a great time saver. I think Fedora has a similar GUI tool as well, which I haven't used in awhile. This is just one of those cases where I found something that worked without much effort and I haven't bothered to look very hard at alternatives. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Angel: This isn't some fairy tale. When I kiss you... you don't wake up from a deep sleep and live happily ever after. Buffy: No... when you kiss me, I wanna die. -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
