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<div>I hae a Kingston Data Traveller USB flash drive (8GB) which for some reason I cannot make a bootable USB drive.</div>
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<div>Googling around I came up with this information:</div>
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<div>-Some USB flash drives are notorious for having problems with corrupted master boot records..... </div>
<div>Credit goes to BHSPitMonkey for pointing out this fix. The troubled drive encountered </div>
<div>was a Kingston Data Traveler 2GB unit- </div></blockquote>
<div dir="ltr">I think this makes my unit highly suspect.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">The solution in Ubuntu was </div>
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<div dir="ltr">we will install the mbr package and use it to create the new mbr on the USB flash drive</div></blockquote>
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<li>Type <strong>sudo apt-get install mbr</strong>
<li>Type <strong>fdisk -l</strong> to find out which device is your flash drive
<li>Type <strong>install-mbr /dev/sdx</strong> (replacing x with your flash device)</li></li></li></ol></ol></div>
<div dir="ltr">My question is how do we do this with Fedora?</div>
<div dir="ltr">I already tried out the install-live-to-usb thingy and it did not work.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">In fact the section in installing the mbr is blank at </div>
<div dir="ltr"><a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo</a></div>
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<div dir="ltr">Thanks</div>
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