Booting from a USB stick

[Konstantin Svist]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I just put the Fedora KDE Live CD on a USB stick,
> and succeeded in booting 2 machines with it,
> one a very small VIA EPIA machine.
> Both worked fine
>
> I followed the instructions at
> <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo>
> but found one part didn't work for me.
>
> You are advised to write the MBR with
>         cat /usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin > /dev/sdb
> This didn't work, and I did what I would have done anyway:
>         dd if=/usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sdb
>
> The other point is that rather surprisingly
> the instructions did not point to the ISO required.
>
> Finally, I found the USB stick was (perhaps not surprisingly)
> mounted read-only, so one could not eg add a user;
> or rather, one could, but it was not there on re-booting.
>
>
>
>   

Not that it helps, but...
you should remember that Flash drives have a fairly limited number of 
write cycles - so keeping it read-only most of the time is probably best 
for you in the long run.

But if you reallyl need it, you should be able to remount it as 
read/write with "mount -o remount,rw /"