On Thursday 10 December 2009, David A. De Graaf wrote: >On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 01:30:04PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: [...] >If the BIOS fails to list the memory stick as a hard drive, you're out >of luck, I'm afraid. > If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have any at all... >Here, for the record, are my notes on how to create a bootable memory >stick that's equivalent to the installation DVD. It's a bit more >intricate than you've described. > > >*** Update for F12 - 11/20/09 *** > >It's much easier to install Fedora from a bootable USB memory stick >that contains the DVD iso image than burning an actual DVD disk. >Previously, I was able to squeeze both the i386 and x86_64 iso images >onto a single 8 GB stick, but it required editing the images to delete >irrelevant foreign language components. With F12 I gave up and put >each system on a separate USB stick. > >Here's what I did: > >1) Download both images: > i386: > -rw-r--r-- 1 dad dad 1511 Nov 12 01:23 Fedora-12-i386-CHECKSUM > -rw-r--r-- 1 dad dad 3204427776 Nov 8 19:02 Fedora-12-i386-DVD.iso > > x86_64: > -rw-rw-r-- 1 dad dad 1525 Nov 12 01:24 Fedora-12-x86_64-CHECKSUM > -rw-rw-r-- 1 dad dad 3537600512 Nov 8 19:11 Fedora-12-x86_64-DVD.iso > >and run sha256sum on each to verify they're correct. > > >2) Insert a USB stick to hold the 386 image and note the device name >assigned, eg, /dev/sdb. >Use fdisk /dev/sdb to create a single partition, /dev/sdb1, of type >Linux, and set it bootable. > >3) Make an ext2 filesystem on /dev/sdb1. To maximize the available >space, eliminate items that are customarily included in a filesystem: > >do NOT use -j to create a journal file >set the number of inodes to only 100 >set the reserved block percentage to 0 > mkfs.ext2 -N 100 -m 0 /dev/sdb1 > >4) Install a bootable mini-Linux by running livecd-iso-to-disk > livecd-iso-to-disk --reset-mbr --noverify Fedora-11-i386-DVD.iso > /dev/sdb1 > >5) Copy the install.img file and the big iso file >Create mount points for the iso and the USB partition. > mkdir /mnt/iso > mkdir /mnt/usb > > mount -o loop Fedora-12-i386-DVD.iso /mnt/iso > mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb > mkdir /mnt/usb/images > cp /mnt/iso/images/install.img /mnt/usb/images/ > cp Fedora-12-i386-DVD.iso /mnt/usb/ > > umount /mnt/usb /mnt/iso >and remove the USB stick. > > >Repeat for the x86_64 version. > -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. <https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp> Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated. -- R. Drabek -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
