Comments on: Fedora 10 Live USB How to

By: Christine Kramer

Christine Kramer — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:56:17 +0000

Guter Post, danke.

By: Achillies

Achillies — Sun, 17 May 2009 17:30:03 +0000

This may or may not help, and it applies to FC10 and 11. You can boot from a CD or DVD, and use the USB for root and a persistent overlay.

Create BOTH a Live-CD and Live-USB (as directed above). Open the USB drive and in the boot directory open the file olpc.fth.
Towards the bottom find a line that looks like this –> ” root=UUID=3868-0D30 rootfstype=vfat rw liveimg overlay=UUID=3868-0D30 quiet rhgb” to boot-file (You’re interested in the root= and overlay= parts). Print olpc.fth, or write down the UUID number for root and the overlay. Also make note of the fstype, it’s important.

Put the CD in the drive and re-boot. Depending on your BIOS and boot order, you may need to remove the USB drive for the moment, because a few of the machines I tried simply lock up with the Live-USB stick in place when booting.

When the “Automatic boot” screen appears, press a key to get to the boot menu. Then press [TAB] to edit the boot options. The mouse doesn’t work here, and there’s no cut and paste, so type carefully (or you’ll be typing it all again!).

For me, the line ORIGINALLY reads:
> vmlinuz0 initrd0.img root=CDLABEL=F11-Preview-i686-Live rootfstype=auto ro liveimg quiet rhgb
To point to the USB, we want to change this to:
> vmlinuz0 initrd0.img root=UUID=YOURUUIDHERE rootfstype=vfat rw liveimg overlay=UUID=YOURUUIDHERE fstype=vfat quiet rhgb

Make sure you enter the correct UUID (from olpc.fth) and change the filesystem type (the LiveUSB creator suggests using fat32 when you format the USB drive, hence the vfat filesystem type for root and the overlay).

Press enter to boot, and the cd should spin for a few seconds and then the USB drive should take over. I’ve only been playing with this since yesterday, but it works, and now I’ve got a laptop without a hard drive or USB Boot support booting FC11 and saving changes back to the USB!

By: Martin Ramos

Martin Ramos — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:16:02 +0000

Hello, first thanks for the tips, my problem is i’ve fedora 10 installed but i wished setup my video driver but my xorg get down, so if someone know how to do something like linux-rescue from a live usb i appreciated so much because i don’t wanna installed again. one more thing. for umount the system just we need to format the usb or need to do something else? sorry for my english :p

By: Bob Awesome

Bob Awesome — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 02:42:23 +0000

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By: rajendra

rajendra — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:05:49 +0000

try Live USB Creator version 3.2

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By: Travo.Cadavo

Travo.Cadavo — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:19:27 +0000

It’s just the same as fedora 9 install but there might be an error at the end. If there is an error and you did make it till the end the drive will still be bootable but the persistent overlay might not function properly. When I did mine I had Fedora 9 installed on it previously, so maybe that may be a step that needs to be done before an upgrade to Fedora 10. Now that I look at it, it just might be that because the boot loader is installed properly with Fedora 9 that a Fedora 10 install is possible. I will look into that though.

By: yellowguy

yellowguy — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:06:20 +0000

As far as I know Fedor Live USB Creator doesn’t support Fedora 10. The leatest release 2.7 suport up to Fedora 9. Can You explain me how You installed Fedora 10 using this tool?