Bootable USB recipe for F8 install ?

[Richard Shaw]

2008/2/5 Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com>:

> lanas wrote:
> >  Is there a bootable USB recipe to make a Fedora 8 install somewhere
> > to be found ?  I've installed F8 successfully using a rescue CD and a
> > USB stick containing the iso image, but it'd be even neater to do it
> > without the CD and boot straight from the USB key to perform the F8
> > install.
>
> You can use the livecd-iso-to-disk script (from the livecd-tools
> package) to put a Fedora live image (.iso) onto a usb stick.  From
> there, you can boot and run the live image from the usb stick and even
> do the install.  That may not be exactly what you're looking for, but
> hopefully it's close.
>
> Another thing you may want to try is writing the diskboot.img to your
> usb stick and also adding the dvd iso image there as well (which you
> may have to futz with a bit to add after you dd the diskboot.img, I
> forget).  That method would give you a bootable usb stick which would
> start up anaconda and let you do the traditional install all off the
> usb stick.
>
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I've been giving this some thought but haven't had any time to do any
research. I'm wondering if it would be possible to do the USB-as-a-live-cd
install but then use unionfs (or aufs) to make it work like a normal
install, like knoppix can do.

Richard
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