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Fedora Live USB

So it appears that there is NOT a way to get the persistent overlay to work properly on Fedora 10 Live USB using the Windows Live USB creator, but there is a workaround that might will do the trick instead of the actual Windows creator.

Things you will need to get the persistent overlay working.

Fedora 10 live ISO image
Blank CD to write that image to
Free space on your flash drive to create the live USB
A working internet connection
Ability to run a few commands from the shell

Once you have burned the Live ISO image to the CD you will need to reboot your computer and let the live image start up rather than your Windows environment. To do this you may need to log into the bios and set your CD as the first boot device or sometimes F8 or F12 will bring up your hardware boot manager.

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I am going to guess that you have heard about the persistent overlay that Fedora 8*, 9, and 10 supports on a USB flash drive.

*Fedora 8 does not support persistent overlay but can still be installed on a flash drive.

So what is “persistent overlay“?

The short answer is, persistent overlay creates a persistent home directory that will remain in the environment even after reboot.

So what does that mean?

Well it simply means that as the live user you can download, save, create, and edit files in your home directory and they will be there the next time you start up the live Linux distribution. This means anything on your desktop or in your pictures, music, documents, or any other location in your home directory.

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