Re: DVD Installer on USB...?

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Have you tried just dd'ing the iso to de usb-disk? I know that works
for live-cds, so it might work for the installer dvd as well (I
haven't tried)

Good luck!

2010/5/30, Christopher A. Williams <chriswfedora@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> I love the speed of the USB installer from the Live CD...!
>
> But I would also like to stop using so many DVDs for, well everything.
> USB drives are much more convenient, portable, durable, and reusable.
> My ideal scenario would be able to put the DVD installer ISO onto a
> bootable USB stick as well - specifically for the portability USB drives
> give over DVDs, and also because USB sticks are basically a lot faster
> and easily re-used once I'm done with the install. I mean, do you use
> the install DVD for anything else once you've done the install?
>
> Again - this would not be a Live image. It would be the DVD installer
> itself running from a USB drive for the specific purpose of doing
> exactly what the DVD installer does now.
>
> I've tried to figure out how to do this a couple of releases back, was
> unsuccessful after about 30 minutes - OK, so I gave up pretty fast.. :)
> - and went back to just burning the DVD. But I'm still interested in
> having this as an option and I'd bet I'm not alone.
>
> Anyone have a how-to/magic incantation to do this? Could we eventually
> make this an option for Fedora installers too?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>
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