On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 10:01 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 11:39 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 07:40 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> > Anyone have a how-to/magic incantation to do this? Could we eventually
> > make this an option for Fedora installers too?
>
> IIRC the Installation doc has a section on this.
I checked it out. It says a straight forward dd command will create one.
Unfortunately, while the dd command does appear to work and you can
browse the contents of the USB drive afterwards, the USB drive is still
NOT bootable.
So, in fact, using dd to create this using the instructions in the
documentation does not work.
I was convinced I'd actually done this, but my memory must be faulty.
However what you can do is create a Boot CD (download boot.iso) and then
install using the pendrive as installation media (created using dd as
above). I guess you could even create a Boot USB drive and a (separate)
Installation pendrive on two USB ports. Or try partitioning the
pendrive, installing the boot.iso file on the first partition (e.g.
using Live-CD Creator) and putting the distro DVD on the other.
poc