DVD Installer on USB...? (Solved)

[Christopher A. Williams]

On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 16:06 +0930, Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 10:01 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> > It says a straight forward dd command will create one.
> >  
> > Unfortunately, while the dd command does appear to work and you can
> > browse the contents of the USB drive afterwards, the USB drive is
> > still NOT bootable.
> 
> I'm not sure you said what you dd'd over to the USB drive.  The ISO
> file?  A copy of bootable already installed hard drive?  Something else?

Actually, I was able to get this working based on a post from David
García Granda.

Indeed, what I _was_ doing was to dd the DVD ISO directly to the USB
drive:

dd if=<path to DVD ISO>/Fedora-13-x86_64-DVD.iso of=/dev/sdc1

This does not work.

I can verify that what does work is (assuming you have installed the
live cd tools package):

livecd-iso-to-disk --format --reset-mbr <path to DVD
ISO>/Fedora-13-x86_64-DVD.iso /dev/sdc1

Note that my examples assume the USB stick is found at /dev/sdc1.

The instructions are misleading, but the URL is:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Installation_Guide/Making_USB_Media-UNIX_Linux.html

Refer to section 3.2.2.1.2 and ignore the fact that it says this works
with the Live ISOs only. It works with both.

Wish we could clean up this doc so things are more easily understood.

I'm still installing on my other system so it's taking me longer to
reply. I'd bet that you could get the live-usb tool to do this too if it
didn't check the source ISO to make sure it is a Live CD ISO.
Unfortunately, it appears to make this check so the only way to do this
right now is via the command line.

Thanks to David for helping me figure this out!

Cheers,

Chris


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