[Leaplist] Stick Drive Fedora 9Live

[Gray Frost]

I don't want to bump this thread,  I downloaded the Iso on the day of
release and have been hesitating about loading it up because I could never
get my sound working correctly with F8.  I want to know what you all think
of F9.  Is it great?

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Craig Conner <fuznacious at gmail.com> wrote:

> <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
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