Upgrading via DVD iso on a USB storage device.

Mikkel L. Ellertson mellertson at gmail.com
Tue Aug 30 22:27:24 UTC 2011


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On 08/28/2011 11:08 PM, Kam Leo wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> On Sun, 2011-08-28 at 12:01 -0600, linux guy wrote:
>>> How do I put the DVD iso image on a USB flash storage device so it
>>> will boot ?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>
>> The easiest way would be unetbootin-linux-549 which you could get from :
>> unetbootin.sourceforge.org. Unfortunately F14 is the latest live usb
>> that is included.
>>
>> Another way is to buy a F15 DVD from cheapbytes/com. It costs ~$5 but it
>> is painless. I guess you could also download the Live CD.
> 
> The Fedora 15 installer (CD, DVD, net, and preupgrade) will not work
> if your system has less than 640MB of memory.  After installation
> Fedora 15 can get by with 512MB.

Another thing to keep in mind is that you can not save the DVD image
to a FAT formatted file system. It is too big.

Mikkel
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