In the official fedora install documentation there is a section "Making USB Media",
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f10/en_US/sn-making-media.html#i...
, there are subsections for Windows and Linux. In the linux instructions, the only instructions for installing livecd-tools are for Fedora. Obviously many users installing Fedora don't have it on their computer already, which makes using windows the only documented option. I think its important to have documentation for using other linux distros.
A lot of laptops don't have cd drives nowadays. Going to try fedora on your laptop and first thing finding that having windows is the only officially documented way move to fedora with your hardware is not a good message.
Also, I went to see if this had been discussed before, but there is no search feature on the archive. Its here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-livecd-list/ Any way around that?
- Ian Kelling
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Ian Kelling smallnow@gmail.com wrote:
In the official fedora install documentation there is a section "Making USB Media",
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f10/en_US/sn-making-media.html#i...
, there are subsections for Windows and Linux. In the linux instructions, the only instructions for installing livecd-tools are for Fedora. Obviously many users installing Fedora don't have it on their computer already, which makes using windows the only documented option. I think its important to have documentation for using other linux distros.
A lot of laptops don't have cd drives nowadays. Going to try fedora on your laptop and first thing finding that having windows is the only officially documented way move to fedora with your hardware is not a good message.
Also, I went to see if this had been discussed before, but there is no search feature on the archive. Its here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-livecd-list/ Any way around that?
I think what you need to use is revisor. It will build USB media and you don't need to customize it (but you could).
2009/4/20, Ian Kelling smallnow@gmail.com:
In the official fedora install documentation there is a section "Making USB Media",
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f10/en_US/sn-making-media.html#i...
, there are subsections for Windows and Linux. In the linux instructions, the only instructions for installing livecd-tools are for Fedora. Obviously many users installing Fedora don't have it on their computer already, which makes using windows the only documented option. I think its important to have documentation for using other linux distros.
A lot of laptops don't have cd drives nowadays. Going to try fedora on your laptop and first thing finding that having windows is the only officially documented way move to fedora with your hardware is not a good message.
Also, I went to see if this had been discussed before, but there is no search feature on the archive. Its here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-livecd-list/ Any way around that?
- Ian Kelling
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1: Download F10-i686Live-KDE.iso. 2: Download GrubGUi. 3: Install Grub4dos to you USB flash. 4: Copy the folder "LiveOS" ,the file "vmlinuz0" and "initrd0.img" from the ISO image to you USB flash. 5: Menu.lst file: ================================ default 0 timeout 5
root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz0 root=/dev/sda ro liveimg rhgb initrd /initrd0.img ================================ 6: OK, restart
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2009/4/20, Ian Kelling smallnow@gmail.com:
In the official fedora install documentation there is a section "Making USB Media",
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f10/en_US/sn-making-media.html#i...
, there are subsections for Windows and Linux. In the linux instructions, the only instructions for installing livecd-tools are for Fedora. Obviously many users installing Fedora don't have it on their computer already, which makes using windows the only documented option. I think its important to have documentation for using other linux distros.
A lot of laptops don't have cd drives nowadays. Going to try fedora on your laptop and first thing finding that having windows is the only officially documented way move to fedora with your hardware is not a good message.
Also, I went to see if this had been discussed before, but there is no search feature on the archive. Its here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-livecd-list/ Any way around that?
- Ian Kelling
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1: Download F10-i686Live-KDE.iso. 2: Download GrubGUi. 3: Install Grub4dos to you USB flash. 4: Copy the folder "LiveOS" ,the file "vmlinuz0" and "initrd0.img" from the ISO image to you USB flash. 5: Menu.lst file: ================================ default 0 timeout 5
root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz0 root=/dev/sda ro liveimg rhgb initrd /initrd0.img ================================ 6: OK, restart
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Thats great. My main issue is that instructions like these should be in the official install documentation guide. Right now for usb install it just has instructions for already having fedora, or using windows. For people who need a usb install (and are not savvy about these things), it gives the message that you need windows to move to fedora.
- Ian
On 04/20/2009 10:30 PM, Ian Kelling wrote:
Thats great. My main issue is that instructions like these should be in the official install documentation guide. Right now for usb install it just has instructions for already having fedora, or using windows. For people who need a usb install (and are not savvy about these things), it gives the message that you need windows to move to fedora.
Actually, the reason why it is that way is because more people from Windows prefer Live USB. Anyway, this is a documentation enhancement and should be filed in bugzilla.redhat.com against that guide.
Rahul
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Actually, the reason why it is that way is because more people from Windows prefer Live USB. Anyway, this is a documentation enhancement and should be filed in bugzilla.redhat.com against that guide.
Thank you. I wasn't sure if this was the right place. I sent the message on.
- Ian
Ian Kelling a écrit :
Also, I went to see if this had been discussed before, but there is no search feature on the archive. Its here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-livecd-list/ Any way around that?
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