Installing F17 Final TC5 Desktop on a 16 GB USB with a Mac using a --efi l-i-t-d USB

Thomas Gilliard satellit at bendbroadband.com
Sun May 13 21:10:17 UTC 2012


==Installing F17 Final TC5 on a 16 GB USB with a Mac using a --efi 
l-i-t-d USB==
===In f17 TC5 Desktop TC5 HD install:===

-root terminal:
  yum install livecd-tools
  livecd-iso-to disk --format --reset-mbr--efi 
Fedora-17.TC5-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso /dev/sdb

===MacBookPro i7===
-Hold "Option Key" down on power on until Blue Fedora EFI boot  appears 
to right of Mac Disk -select it
  boot USB on MAC
  Install to HD
  use whole disk non LVM
  Congratulations
  Reboot
===Boot Target 16 GB HD on MAC===
-Hold "Option Key" down on power on until Blue Fedora EFI boot appears 
to right of Mac Disk -select it
  Firstboot
  Logs in to USER via gdm
*disks (Disk Utility):
  500 GB Hard Disk (Mac -not in use)
  CD/DVD Drive /dev/sr0
  16 GB Drive (Mounted)
  TOSHIBA Transmemory
   Partition 1 177 Apple HFS/HFS+MB                
/dev/sdb1                    /boot/efi
   Partition 2 528 MB Basic Data EXT4 (Version1.0) 
/dev/sdb2                    /boot
   Partition 3 9.1 GB Basic Data EXT4 (Version1.0) 
/dev/sdb2                    Filesystem root
   Swap        6.2 GB linux swap (Version 2)       /dev/sdb4
*Disk Usage Analyzer
  total filesystem capacity 9.8 GB (used 2.8 GB available 7.0 GB)

*Shuts Down and reboots correctly from the target USB and saves settings
*NOTE: Wireless does not work (missing firmware). Use wired Ethernet for 
connecton to internet

Note:This method should work for SoaS TC5 x86_64 also

Tom Gilliard


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