fedora equivalent of recovery disk

[Paul Allen Newell]

On 12/13/2011 4:09 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
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> My estimate is that I will have materials in a day or two and then 
> another day or two to finish up checking out all the suggestions I've 
> got. I am estimating that I'll test one or both over the weekend.
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To the list:

I've download and burned PartedMagic. It booted properly and I was able 
to see what was available via "ls". Typed "clonezilla" and followed 
directions ... took three tries and I don't understand why, but I was 
able to get an image onto a USB.

I am now trying to see if I can boot from the image, but my poor little 
laptop doesn't give me any options except CD/DVD or hard drive when I 
hit f9 in the boot-up process.

One of the things I took from all the helpful info I got was that I 
could boot from the USB to confirm it was working. It appears that I 
can't do such and from what I can tell in Clonezilla, there doesn't seem 
to be an option for booting the PartedMagic CD and telling it to reboot 
off the USB.

Am I missing something, or is the USB something I can only transfer back 
to hard drive?

I want to give G4L a try, but it seems the issue is now my laptop not 
wanting to boot off USB which renders testing an USB image academic? ....
Thanks, Paul