Fedora 14 : Unable to mount CD / DVD properly

[Aaron Konstam]

On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 12:07 -0400, Andrew Malcolmson wrote:
> I'm coming to this discussion late as I've just joined this list (so I
> can't reply to the original post as I'd like to), but on Debian I was
> able to create a bootable Fedora live CD/installer on a USB stick as
> follows:
> 
> 1) Write MBR to stick
> 
> Debian has a program to write an MBR.  On Fedora you can do:
> 
> # cat /usr/share/syslinux/mbr.bin > /dev/sdb
> 
> 2) Cat iso to disk, i.e.
> 
> # cat fedora-img.iso > /dev/sdb
> 
> Like the OP, I first tried dd to copy the image which didn't work but
> cat does.  I'd be interested in why that is.

All this is trivial in Fedora using unetbootin
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