On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 03:29 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: > > No floppy and DVD doesn't work. I need to boot from a USB stick and > > try to install that way. There is an overload of Fedora related sites > > which makes it slightly cumbersome finding stuff at times. So, is there > > a Fedora "spin" that can be used with USB sticks for installation? If > > so, where might it be? > > It's supposed to be possible to make a "live" USB stick out of a "live" CD > image. I'll dig through the list archive and maybe a Google Linux search to see if I can find anything. > I haven't tried that but I have sometimes installed Fedora using an > installation DVD image and two USB sticks. I put the DVD image on one USB > stick such that the ISO image was a file in the file system on the stick. > Then I took the image file diskboot.img (which seems to be efidisk.img in > Fedora 9) from the DVD image and wrote it to another USB stick such that the > image became the file system on the stick. As I recall I first inserted the > boot stick and booted from it. Then I inserted the other USB stick, selected > the option to install from a hard disk, and gave the installer the path to > the DVD image on the stick. That's a good manual/fallback to have. I'm not sure I can do this as the largest stick is 1 GB (plus 2 or 3 256 MB buggers lying around). Dankuwel, Björn (I took a stab at the language, hope it's close). Joe -- Interesting Boring Blog - http://x-nc.blogspot.com A combination of insight and inanity for your reading pleasure -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
