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