[Leaplist] Stick Drive Fedora 9Live

[William H. Ferguson]

5-17-2008 I have been trying to follow Bryan's suggestion to put a 
LiveCD Fedora _9_ Op. System on a 2 GB Memorex Stick Drive. I removed 
all the files on my 2GB Memorex Stick Drive ---then--- Uninstalled it 
from my older Computer which runs Fedora Core 8.

This morning I plugged it into a USB port of the New LEK-built 
computer---runs Fedora _*9*_ --- and booted the machine. The Memorex 2G 
icon is shown on the screen on boot up. When I pressed “Open” the screen 
offered “Open with Archive Manager,” “Open with Word Processor” and one 
other option I've forgotten.

I clicked on “Open it with Word Processor” hoping that would bring the 
Fedora-_9_-686-Live.iso program to the screen. The Opening with Word 
Processor took a couple minutes to load, showing a developing horizontal 
bar of blue dashes at bottom of the screen. But the screen then remained 
blank. Must have been a wrong choice.

Somehow I shifted the machine into “media” but that didn't change anything.

Now, the Panel shows several data boxes showing Memorex 2G, Media, Open 
Office .org 2.3 and Memorex 2G File B

I killed the machine and then booted it again. Remember I have no 
self-created files on this new computer. I learned that User presses 
F-11 to go to the Set Up Menu and presses F-2 for Boot Menu. (That may 
be backward). I looked at both “Set Up” and “Boot” Menus. One of them 
offers “Generic USB device” and the other offers “Memorex 1G” (or 
similar---I can't explain the "1G" when the Stick Drive is "2G"). I 
chose the USB option in each trial then Pressed “Save Changes and Exit” 
and thereafter the Computer boots O.K. I'm concluding that this computer 
will boot from the USB Memorex 2G Stick Drive. But that must be a wrong 
conclusion since the Fedora _9_ Live program does not open.

Even tho' the computer boots OK, the Live CD version of Fedora Core 9 
does not open on the screen. Where have I been incomplete?

Thank you,

William Flagler Beach