On 03/23/2014 04:12 AM, Tim wrote:
Just recently I had to boot from USB to install onto a laptop with
no
optical drive. I found four different methods of putting a Linux
installer onto a USB. One of them involved Windows, so that was out.
Two of them were Linux programs for writing installers to the flash
drive. One required adding things to a current install that I didn't
want to do. The other was less painful, and worked for writing one
installer to a USB, but not for another (I tried Fedora and Ubuntu on
this laptop). The last was plain dd if=/install.iso of=/def/flashdrive
(I'm paraphrasing), and that worked for the one that didn't work the
other way.
If you haven't already, you may want to take a look at unetbootin.
Unlike Fedora's Live USB Creator it doesn't care what distribution
you're putting on the drive.