I see that RedHat recommend in http://www.redhatguides.com/create-a-centos-7-bootable-usb-drive/ that one should create a CentOS LiveKDE USB stick under Windows using the Linus Live USB Creator app.
I've been using Fedora LiveUSB Creator on a Fedora laptop. I'm wondering if there is any CentOS app for this? I know I can do it directly with dd, but I'd like to add some persistent storage, if that is possible.
Incidentally, all the information I have seen on CentOS USB sticks assume one is running GNOME. Is there any specific KDE documentation on this?
It should not matter which ISO you are using, at least not for desktop environment, unless the KDE spin is doing something crazy at the low levels of the stack. Using the Gnome instructions should work fine, but if you copy-paste said instructions then we can sanity-check them.
--Eric On Dec 22, 2015 08:53, "Timothy Murphy" gayleard@eircom.net wrote:
I see that RedHat recommend in http://www.redhatguides.com/create-a-centos-7-bootable-usb-drive/ that one should create a CentOS LiveKDE USB stick under Windows using the Linus Live USB Creator app.
I've been using Fedora LiveUSB Creator on a Fedora laptop. I'm wondering if there is any CentOS app for this? I know I can do it directly with dd, but I'd like to add some persistent storage, if that is possible.
Incidentally, all the information I have seen on CentOS USB sticks assume one is running GNOME. Is there any specific KDE documentation on this?
-- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin
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Eric Griffith wrote:
It should not matter which ISO you are using, at least not for desktop environment, unless the KDE spin is doing something crazy at the low levels of the stack. Using the Gnome instructions should work fine, but if you copy-paste said instructions then we can sanity-check them.
Incidentally, all the information I have seen on CentOS USB sticks assume one is running GNOME. Is there any specific KDE documentation on this?
The document I was specifically referring to is https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB which as I said assumes one is running Gnome.
Here are the explicit instructions:
1. Download a Fedora image, choose a USB stick that does not contain any data you need, and connect it 2. Run Nautilus (Files) - for instance, open the Overview by pressing the Start/Super key, and type Files, then hit enter 3. Find the downloaded image, right-click on it, go to Open With, and click Disk Image Writer 4. Double-check you're really, really sure you don't need any of the data on the USB stick! 5. Select your USB stick as the Destination, and click Start Restoring... 6. Wait for the operation to complete, then reboot your computer, and do whatever you need to do to boot from a USB stick - often this will involve pressing or holding down F12, F2 or Del.
Make sure that you haven't overwritten the MBR. You will need to copy the boot bin info via DD. That's bitten me many of times on USB Keys.
On 12/22/15 11:00, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Eric Griffith wrote:
It should not matter which ISO you are using, at least not for desktop environment, unless the KDE spin is doing something crazy at the low levels of the stack. Using the Gnome instructions should work fine, but if you copy-paste said instructions then we can sanity-check them.
Incidentally, all the information I have seen on CentOS USB sticks assume one is running GNOME. Is there any specific KDE documentation on this?
The document I was specifically referring to is https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB which as I said assumes one is running Gnome.
Here are the explicit instructions:
- Download a Fedora image, choose a USB stick that does not contain any data you need, and connect it
- Run Nautilus (Files) - for instance, open the Overview by pressing the Start/Super key, and type Files, then hit enter
- Find the downloaded image, right-click on it, go to Open With, and click Disk Image Writer
- Double-check you're really, really sure you don't need any of the data on the USB stick!
- Select your USB stick as the Destination, and click Start Restoring...
- Wait for the operation to complete, then reboot your computer, and do whatever you need to do to boot from a USB stick - often this will involve pressing or holding down F12, F2 or Del.
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Emilio Recio wrote:
Make sure that you haven't overwritten the MBR. You will need to copy the boot bin info via DD. That's bitten me many of times on USB Keys.
I've not had that problem lately. But I have occasionally found it impossible to format a USB stick under Fedora, and have had to boot into Windows to do this.
There does not seem to be a proper USB formatting program under Linux. In my experience it is usually, but not always, possible to do this using fdisk or gparted.
The whole approach of Fedora to USB is baffling to me. It seems to be assumed that users will use CDs or DVDs - both in my view semi-obsolete today. I suspect that most computers intended for use as servers don't even have DVD readers nowadays.
It reminds me a little of floppy drives, which continued to appear in boot programs long after they had disappeared in real life.
Surely it is time to make USB sticks the default medium?
It should not matter which ISO you are using, at least not for desktop environment, unless the KDE spin is doing something crazy at the low levels of the stack. Using the Gnome instructions should work fine, but if you copy-paste said instructions then we can sanity-check them.
Here are the explicit instructions:
- Download a Fedora image, choose a USB stick that does not contain any data you need, and connect it
- Run Nautilus (Files) - for instance, open the Overview by pressing the Start/Super key, and type Files, then hit enter
- Find the downloaded image, right-click on it, go to Open With, and click Disk Image Writer
- Double-check you're really, really sure you don't need any of the data on the USB stick!
- Select your USB stick as the Destination, and click Start Restoring...
- Wait for the operation to complete, then reboot your computer, and do whatever you need to do to boot from a USB stick - often this will involve pressing or holding down F12, F2 or Del.
emergent or urgent health care matters.
The person who offered to provide a KDE equivalent seems to have forgotten their offer ...
On Dec 22, 2015 06:53, "Timothy Murphy" gayleard@eircom.net wrote:
I see that RedHat recommend in http://www.redhatguides.com/create-a-centos-7-bootable-usb-drive/ that one should create a CentOS LiveKDE USB stick under Windows using the Linus Live USB Creator app.
I've been using Fedora LiveUSB Creator on a Fedora laptop. I'm wondering if there is any CentOS app for this? I know I can do it directly with dd, but I'd like to add some persistent storage, if that is possible.
Incidentally, all the information I have seen on CentOS USB sticks assume one is running GNOME. Is there any specific KDE documentation on this?
-- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin
Pedantic side note: A recommendation *for* Red Hat, or from a site *discussing* Red Hat, is not the same as a recommendation *from Red Hat*. If the site branding doesn't give it away, https://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=redhatguides.com will.
Try the instructions from https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/23/html/Installation_Guide/sect-... . They are not specific to the DE on the image.
--Pete
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