[Leaplist] Stick Drive Fedora 9Live

[William H. Ferguson]

Thanks, Craig,

But I actually did what you've advised but in the format suggested at:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo

At that Link, a step-by-step procedure is followed. User has to 
substitute the name of his particular device, as you've noted, to make 
the commands run.

So, I'm not sure why the result has failed to be an installation of the 
program on the USB stick which will open the Fedora 9-Live.iso image so 
that I could see and use that program.

William
Flagler Beach

Craig Conner wrote:
> <snip>
>
>   
>> 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
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