F9 boot-from-USB MemStick?

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Björn Persson wrote:
> 
> It's supposed to be possible to make a "live" USB stick out of a "live" CD 
> image. I haven't tried that but I have sometimes installed Fedora using an 
> installation DVD image and two USB sticks. I put the DVD image on one USB 
> stick such that the ISO image was a file in the file system on the stick. 
> Then I took the image file diskboot.img (which seems to be efidisk.img in 
> Fedora 9) from the DVD image and wrote it to another USB stick such that the 
> image became the file system on the stick. As I recall I first inserted the 
> boot stick and booted from it. Then I inserted the other USB stick, selected 
> the option to install from a hard disk, and gave the installer the path to 
> the DVD image on the stick.
> 
> Björn Persson
> 
http://lifehacker.com/391067/fedora-9-puts-your-desktop-on-a-usb-drive

Mikkel
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