USB Install Method?

Sean Bruno sean.bruno at dsl-only.net
Fri May 30 03:42:30 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 17:39 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 12:58 -0700, Sean Bruno wrote:
> > According the docs, there is a procedure for installing from a USB
> > stick, but "Procedure 3.2 Creating Bootable USB Media from Linux"
> > appears to be blank?
> > 
> > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f9/en_US/sn-making-media.html#id543953
> 
> The headings are screwed up. The Windows instructions are in the first
> section, followed by the Linux instructions under the heading "Procedure
> 3.1: Creating Bootable USB Media with Windows". The section entitled
> "Procedure 3.2. Creating Bootable USB Media with Linux" is blank.
> 
> poc
> 

Ok, so using the information from Patrick I was able to use
"livecd-iso-to-disk" to turn the "boot.iso" file into a bootable USB
stick.

However, livecd-iso-to-disk requires a vfat or ext2-3 f/s.  Do I had to
run mkfs on the thumb drive first.

Sean




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