install fedora via usb stick

Pasha R pashar.ml at gmail.com
Thu Dec 12 15:03:52 UTC 2013


An issue I recently encountered: USB created with dd or LiveUSB creator
might not boot on EFI systems. The only tool that worked for me was
livecd-iso-to-disk with --efi option (required me to add --format, too, so
it is destructive).


On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Ian Malone <ibmalone at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11 December 2013 22:23, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh at mimosa.com> wrote:
>
> > The LiveUSB creator lets you
>
> > 2) create a persistent store so changes you make on the live
> >    system will be there next time you boot.
> >    (But I've had some live USBs stop working, perhaps due to this.)
> >
>
> A persistent overlay is used to do this, but it isn't re-writeable: it
> accumulates changes. Once you run out of space to record any more then
> things go wrong. (There's an option in the command line tool, but not
> LiveUSB, to add a home filesystem which is a normal loopback mount.)
>
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