USB installation of Fedora-17
Sonic
get.sonic at gmail.com
Mon Jun 4 14:01:27 UTC 2012
On 06/04/2012 07:27 PM, Sonic wrote:
> On 06/04/2012 01:57 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> I used a very cheap 32GB USB stick - maybe that was the cause of my
>> problems ... I started by dd-ing the DVD iso onto the single
>> partition /dev/sdb1 on the stick. For some reason this did not boot,
>> so I deleted the partition (with fdisk) and dd-ed the iso onto
>> /dev/sdb . Maybe that was my error?
>
> Today I successfully installed F17 (x86_64) from a 4GB USB stick. I
> dd'ed the DVD ISO image to /dev/sdb (and not sdb1).
>
> A couple of days back, when I tried it the first time, I accidentally
> started dd-ing to sdb1. Then I aborted the process and then dd'ed to
> sdb. It was mounting fine and all files were listed, but the PC won't
> boot from it.
> I used a Sandisk Cruzer Blade drive which had some weird GPT partition
> table for some apps that came with it. Anyway, I used 'parted' to
> remove all partitions and create a new msdos partition table.
Oops.. I forgot to mention that I first 'erased' the disk completely by
doing:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb
Took way too much time..
Syam
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