[Leaplist] Stick Drive Fedora 9Live

[Craig Conner]

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>
> 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
>

Above you're on the wrong track.  Below you're on the right track, but
you've missed some things that have to happen before you get there.

There are some people who've done what you're wanting to do, and
they've made some nice tools to make it much easier.  For Fedora the
tools are part of a package called "livecd-tools" and you'll want to
make sure you have it installed.  (Typically root can type "yum
install livecd-tools" to do this.)

What you want to do is be root and use /usr/bin/livecd-iso-to-disk
which, if not given enough information to do its job, will show the
following usage hint:
/usr/bin/livecd-iso-to-disk [--reset-mbr] [--noverify] <isopath>
<usbstick device>

...which, by the way, isn't exactly correct.  The command doesn't want
<usbstick device> at the end, what it really wants is the device name
of a file system.  So the "help" implies it wants something like
/dev/sdh but it really wants something like /dev/sdh1

So if your USB stick is (for example) /dev/sdh
livecd-iso-to-disk /path/to/Fedora-_9_-686-Live.iso /dev/sdh1

> 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.
>

I think you have the correct conclusion, and with the right USB stick
contents you'll be in business. :)

HTH,
--Fuzzy