[fedora-india] Fedora 13 Live USB creation problem

[Ritesh Sinha]

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Hiemanshu Sharma
<hiemanshu at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> >From Fedora 12 onwards you can just dd the image to your USB drive and it
> should boot. So if sdb if your Pen Drive, the command would be
> dd if=/path/to/iso of=/dev/sdb. To make the Pen Drive usable again, just
> build a new partition table using fdisk or GParted. (You can easily google
> on how to do this)

Doing this, but how would one have a persistent overlay in this case?


>
> - Hiemanshu
>
> On 2 June 2010 21:05, Ritesh Sinha <sinha.k.ritesh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Long time stalker, first time thread creator :). I consider myself
>> fairly proficient with Fedora but this simple issue has me seriously
>> stumped and embarrassed. I've been trying to get the latest Fedora to
>> run from an USB stick. This is what I've tried so far
>> 1. Fedora Live USB creator on Windows (doesn't have an option for F13,
>> tried with the F12 option no go)
>> 2. UNetBootIN on Ubuntu Linux: Doesn't have an option for F13, did not
>> attempt to use the F12 option.
>> 3. Fedora live usb creator from source on Ubuntu (after installing the
>> required qt4 dependencies). This has no option for F13 and looks
>> identical to the one for windows so I didn't try this.
>>
>> In all cases the error is on the lines of "Unable to mount
>> /squashfs/../Ext3fs ..". I get through isolinux but no luck after the
>> drop like load screen starts. Additionally I get a flood of messages
>> about my CDROM drive (which is broken) when starting but I'm pretty
>> sure it is irrelevant in this case.
>>
>> I've looked through the all the docs I could furiously google for but
>> I can't seem to find an appropriate solution.
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Ritesh
>>
>> P.S. I may have posted using my other email address too (which isn't
>> subscribed to this list), please ignore that.
>>
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