[ale] Using LiveUSB for Fedora

[Jim Kinney]

get the 32GB. There's no such thing as "too much storage space".

(a 4GB is plenty unless you just need an excuse to got to MicroCenter).

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Scott Castaline <skotchman at gmail.com>wrote:

>  On 09/28/2010 11:18 AM, Chuck Payne wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Scott Castaline<skotchman at gmail.com>
>  wrote:
> >>   Looking for advice on utilizing a LiveUSB Flash Drive. I'll be going
> >> to Fla. for several weeks and want to be able to use Fedora on a Windows
> >> PC without actually installing it on the hard drive. I want to know the
> >> following:
> >>
> >> 1. Recommended sizes of flash drive
> >> 2. Will I be able to install additional software onto the drive?
> >> 3. Can I change the LiveUser to another user?
> >> 4. Can I copy files from my home system onto the LiveUSB?
> >> 5. How changeable is the system once booted?
> >>
> >> I have installed Fedora 13 Live using liveusb-create onto a 2GB Flash
> >> Drive and attempted to install GnuCash. It came up with a large list of
> >> dependencies that needed to be also installed and then appeared to do
> >> nothing, so I'm not sure if maybe the 2GB is not enough room or it just
> >> can't do it. Any assistance would be appreciated. Also I plan on using
> >> Fedora 13 x86_32 as I'm not sure what the system specs are that I'll be
> >> using.
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> > I would commend 8 Gig to 16 Gig flash drive. I used SUSE studio to
> > create me a nice portable Gnome desktop. I know that Fedora recommends
> > 1gig, but if you are going to use it a lot have a bit of space to grow
> > on...
> >
> >
> http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/362829-weekend-project-create-a-live-usb-key-linux-distribution
> > https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/
> >
> > You might have these two links, but I have included them just to help.
> >
> Had the 2nd but not the first. I had even tried using UNetbootin, but it
> seemed that no matter which menu option I used, it seemed to be trying
> to install itself onto my hard drives.  As far as the size of flash goes
> I was leaning towards 16GB, but wanted to hear from other people on the
> list if that would be considered overkill or still not enough.
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