Booting off of a thumb drive?

[Rick Stevens]

RoboticGolem wrote:
> Everyone I've seen has a bios setting along the lines of usb-hd0  ... 
>  I dont actually know how to make the image that goes on the usb drive
> tho.

Uh, the easiest I know of is to create a bootable CDROM image on the
thumb drive.  Under FC3:

	1. Insert the thumb drive.  Unmount it if it automounts.
	2. Use fdisk to delete any partitions on the drive
	3. mkbootdisk --iso --device /dev/sda `uname -r`

In step 3, replace "/dev/sda" with whatever the device name your system
uses for the thumb drive.
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