Timothy Murphy wrote:
I just put the Fedora KDE Live CD on a USB stick,
and succeeded in booting 2 machines with it,
one a very small VIA EPIA machine.
Both worked fine
I followed the instructions at
<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo>
but found one part didn't work for me.
You are advised to write the MBR with
cat /usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin > /dev/sdb
This didn't work, and I did what I would have done anyway:
dd if=/usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sdb
The other point is that rather surprisingly
the instructions did not point to the ISO required.
Finally, I found the USB stick was (perhaps not surprisingly)
mounted read-only, so one could not eg add a user;
or rather, one could, but it was not there on re-booting.
Not that it helps, but...
you should remember that Flash drives have a fairly limited number of
write cycles - so keeping it read-only most of the time is probably best
for you in the long run.
But if you reallyl need it, you should be able to remount it as
read/write with "mount -o remount,rw /"
