installation issue 2

[Patrick Dupre]

Hello,

I was thinking in making a bootable USB key for the installation.
I read: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB
There is instruction about creating partitions and install the .iso on one
of them and make it bootable. The example is with a single partition:
su -c "livecd-iso-to-disk --reset-mbr  
Fedora-17-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso /dev/sdX"

I am surprise taht we could not make the same on a specific partition by
making it bootable, like we do on a usual hardrive.
UNetbootin or liveusb-creator do not seem to have this option.

Am I wrong?

Thank.

[Bill Davidsen]

Patrick Dupre wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was thinking in making a bootable USB key for the installation.
> I read: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB
> There is instruction about creating partitions and install the .iso on one
> of them and make it bootable. The example is with a single partition:
> su -c "livecd-iso-to-disk --reset-mbr Fedora-17-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso /dev/sdX"
>
> I am surprise taht we could not make the same on a specific partition by
> making it bootable, like we do on a usual hardrive.
> UNetbootin or liveusb-creator do not seem to have this option.
>
> Am I wrong?

There's another thread with a very similar question, why don't you look there?

[Patrick Dupre]

Quoting dim, 03 mar 2013 Bill Davidsen :
> Patrick Dupre wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I was thinking in making a bootable USB key for the installation.
> > I read: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB
> > There is instruction about creating partitions and install the .iso on one
> > of them and make it bootable. The example is with a single partition:
> > su -c "livecd-iso-to-disk --reset-mbr  
> > Fedora-17-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso /dev/sdX"
> >
> > I am surprise taht we could not make the same on a specific partition by
> > making it bootable, like we do on a usual hardrive.
> > UNetbootin or liveusb-creator do not seem to have this option.
> >
> > Am I wrong?
>
> There's another thread with a very similar question, why don't you  
> look there?

Thank.

Do you mean:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=273418  ?
Then I wanted to make some changes.
Is this correct:
my key is mounted as suggested, then I created:
/mnt/flash/Fedora_18_live
and I put in this directory:
Fedora-18-x86_64-DVD.iso  initrd.img  vmlinuz
and keep:
extlinux.conf ldlinux.sys menu.c32
in /mnt/flash
and modified accordingly:
extlinux.conf
append initrd=initrd.img lang=en_US.UTF-8 repo=hd:UUID=myuuid:/Fedora_18_live

Thank for your help

[g]

On 03/02/2013 09:51 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was thinking in making a bootable USB key for the installation.
> I read: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB
> There is instruction about creating partitions and install the .iso on one
> of them and make it bootable. The example is with a single partition:
> su -c "livecd-iso-to-disk --reset-mbr  
> Fedora-17-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso /dev/sdX"
>
> I am surprise taht we could not make the same on a specific partition by
> making it bootable, like we do on a usual hardrive.
> UNetbootin or liveusb-creator do not seem to have this option.

not sure what you are wanting to make.

i had problems with 'liveusb-creator'.

so, i used 'UNetbootlin' to create a boot usb with sl6.3 liveDVD and,
it works great.

i partitioned a PNY 16G0 to;

/dev/sdf1 = sl6.3 boot /
   /dev/sdf5 = ext3 for storage

works so well, i am getting another 16G0 usb stick for f18 leveDVD.
> Am I wrong?

about what?
> Thank.

much welcome.

hth.