[ale] making a usb thumb drive bootable from a dvd install disk

Geoffrey lists at serioustechnology.com
Fri Mar 28 14:49:32 EDT 2008


Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 13:15 -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
>> Anyone got any pointers how I can create a bootable usb thumbdrive from 
>> my Red Hat DVD install disk?
> 
> 	Start here:
> 
> 	http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/LiveCDHowTo
> 
> 	From there follow to here:
> 
> 	http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo
> 
> 	I've done this with F8 but they claim it should be largely distro
> agnostic (presuming yum based since you use yum to install the Live
> Tools).

Thanks for the link.  It says it was successful, but I've try to boot 
from it on two different boxes, neither works.  I might try to recreate 
it and try again.

Both boxes saw the usb drive, but neither would boot from it.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
  - Benjamin Franklin


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