[Leaplist] Stick Drive Fedora 9Live

[Craig Conner]

<from earlier post>

> 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.

Looking at what you've written so far you seem to be treating the .iso
file as if it were a document to be read.

You can mount a .iso file and see its contents, but even so...  It is
not a document.

It is an image.  Inside that image are many files.  Most of them are
also not documents.

I looked for a more complete answer.  I found this (hope it helps):
http://www.cdrfaq.org/faq02.html#S2-28
"Going by the more restrictive definition, an "ISO" is created by
copying an entire disc, from sector 0 to the end, into a file."

While a .iso file is not always "an entire disc" the quote above is
close to the right idea.


<from most recent post>

> 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.

In what way did it fail?  Did you see error messages?  For that
matter, did you see *any* messages?
-- If so, what program gave you the message(s)?
-- If so, what are the message(s)?
-- If so, did you follow the advice of the message(s)?  What happened next?

--Fuzzy