Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, "Why?")

[Joe Zeff]

On 03/23/2014 04:12 AM, Tim wrote:
> Just recently I had to boot from USB to install onto a laptop with no
> optical drive.  I found four different methods of putting a Linux
> installer onto a USB.  One of them involved Windows, so that was out.
> Two of them were Linux programs for writing installers to the flash
> drive.  One required adding things to a current install that I didn't
> want to do.  The other was less painful, and worked for writing one
> installer to a USB, but not for another (I tried Fedora and Ubuntu on
> this laptop).  The last was plain dd if=/install.iso of=/def/flashdrive
> (I'm paraphrasing), and that worked for the one that didn't work the
> other way.

If you haven't already, you may want to take a look at unetbootin. 
Unlike Fedora's Live USB Creator it doesn't care what distribution 
you're putting on the drive.