Installing FC8 fron USB stick

[Jim]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Ian Brown wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have the FC8 (x86_64) installation iso - Fedora-8-x86_64-DVD.iso.
>> I want to install   FC8 on a machine without an optical drive.
>>
>> What I am thinking is:
>>
>>
>>
>> On first usb stick: (/dev/sdb1)
>> dd if= diskboot.img of=/dev/sdb1
>> and boot from this USB stick
>>
>> On second usb stick: (/dev/sdc1)
>> dd if=/Fedora-8-i386-DVD.iso of=/dev/sdc1
>>
>> And from the installation program which runs when booting from the
>> first USB stick, I will choose : installation from disk
>> and select /dev/sdc1.
>>
>> Now, this should work (I haven't try it yet).
>>
>> But my question is : can it be done in one shot?
>>
>>
>> Namely, if I will run
>> dd if=/Fedora-8-i386-DVD.iso of=/dev/sdc1
>> and try to boot from this stick  - will it work ? does isolinux 
>> support it ?
>> and in case it does not - can anybody suggest how can it be done (if 
>> at all)
>> in one shot?
>>
>> Regards,
>> IB
>>
> A better way would be to use the diskboot.img It is designed to boot 
> off a USB stick. There was a thread about this a while ago, with a 
> pointer to a HOWTO page, but I could not find it. But if I remember 
> correctly, you can put the DVD image on the same USB stick as a file, 
> and point the installer to it.
>
> Mikkel
Check this FedoraProject site out.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/LiveCDHowTo