On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 at 16:24, Fred Smith fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote:
On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 05:48:43PM +0100, Barry Scott wrote:
I want to create a bootable USB stick that runs fedora.
I do not want to create a Live-CD USB stick because live-CD fails to boot on my main PC. And no one seems to know how to fix this. By using a read-write USB stick I can add in debug code to the boot process and try to findout what is hanging the boot process.
What my google-fu is failed to do is figure out how to find instruction on how to do this with getting live-CD instructions.
I'm guessing that I should be able to use anaconda or dnf to get the heavy lifting done.
Does anyone know what the steps I need to follow are?
Barry
FWIW, some years back I did (more than once) install Fedora onto a USB stick using an normal install procedure. all I had to do was be sure to specify the right device for the USB stick so I didn't wipe out the installed system on the computer.
This was probably back around Fedoraaa 11-13 or thereabouts, and I h aven't kept up with Fedora for the last few years, but there is no reason THAT I KNOW OF why it wouldn't still work.
By "normal install procedure" I assume you mean you were able to boot some installation media. Since the OP can't boot the live media, the "normal install procedure" isn't available.
It may be possible to create a new ISO image with extra grub options like https://www.askapache.com/linux/linux-debugging/
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/creating-and-using-a-live-in... mentions adding persistent storage to a live USB which might be helpful for saving logs, etc.