[Bug 693635] Intel Mac and Live USB

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Nathan Thomas <nathan.thomas at peacenik.co.uk> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Nathan Thomas <nathan.thomas at peacenik.co.uk> 2011-04-05 16:43:34 EDT ---
Hi Gareth,

Can I ask how you are creating your live USB drive? If you're using Fedora
LiveUSB Creator or dd it probably won't work, but if you have another machine
already running Fedora (or can borrow a friend's Windows machine and boot a
Fedora live USB created with a persistence layer) you can create a
Mac-compatible live USB drive using a suite of programs called livecd-tools.
Open a terminal and type the following commands:

$ su -c "yum install livecd-tools"
$ su -c "livecd-iso-to-disk --efi --format <ISO_NAME> <USB_Drive_NAME>"

where <ISO_NAME> is the path to the live image you want to install, and
<USB_Drive_NAME> is the path to the usb drive you want to install it to. If
you're not sure about the path to your usb drive, have a look in your /dev
folder, which lists all connected devices - you can find out the name of your
usb drive by simply removing it and noting which item is removed from the list!

So if the live image was in my downloads folder and my usb drive was called
sdb, the command would be:

$ su -c "livecd-iso-to-disk --efi --format
/home/nathan/Downloads/Fedora-15-Alpha-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso /dev/sdb

That should get you a live usb drive that boots on a Mac. If you're able to try
this please let us know if it works - if not we can file a bug with
livecd-tools. Either way it's definitely something that should be mentioned in
our documentation - thank you for bringing it to our attention!

Best wishes,
Nathan

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