F14-LiveUSB fails on NetBook?

[Zacharie Elcor]

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Jesse Palser <SLNTHERO at aol.com> wrote:

> F14-LiveUSB fails on NetBook?
>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to install Fedora 14 32bit Linux
> onto my NetBook with no CD drive.
>
> I created a bootable USB drive on another computer
> using current LiveUSB Creator program on F14.
>
> When I plug in USB drive into NetBoot and turn on,
> I get the following error message:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> No root device found
>
> Boot has failed, sleeping forever
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Any help would be appreciated
> Thanks!
>

You can create a bootable USB from live.iso with :

dd if=/path/to/live.iso of=/dev/your_usb_device

note that "your_usb_device" must be the whole device (eg "sdb"), not a
partition on that device (eg "sdb1").
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