Setup Fedora

Reference

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB

Download "Fedora-12-i686-Live.iso".

http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/12/Live/i686/Fedora-12-i686-Live.iso

Mount it to /mnt (instead of burn it into CD)

root@ang-laptop:/$ mount -o loop /home/ang/FedoraSetup/Fedora-12-i686-Live.iso /mnt/iso

Check the inserted USB thumb drive's device node

root@ang-laptop:/mnt/iso# df

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on

/dev/sda2            102452552  73206136  24042040  76% /

udev                   1548200       308   1547892   1% /dev

none                   1548200       188   1548012   1% /dev/shm

none                   1548200       188   1548012   1% /var/run

none                   1548200         0   1548200   0% /var/lock

none                   1548200         0   1548200   0% /lib/init/rw

/dev/loop0             3129324   3129324         0 100% /mnt/mnt-dvd

/dev/sdb1             15116836    867984  13480948   7% /media/LinuxOS

root@ang-laptop:/mnt/iso#

Use "livecd-iso-to disk" utilities to expand iso into thumb drive

root@ang-laptop:/mnt/iso/LiveOS$ cd ./mnt/iso/LiveOS

root@ang-laptop:/mnt/iso/LiveOS$ ./livecd-iso-to-disk /home/ang/FedoraSetup/Fedora-12-i686-Live.iso /dev/sdb1

Verifying image...

./livecd-iso-to-disk: line 399: checkisomd5: command not found

Are you SURE you want to continue?

Press Enter to continue or ctrl-c to abort

/dev/sdb1 is mounted, please unmount for safety

Cleaning up to exit...

OOps...then we umount it first

root@ang-laptop:/mnt/iso/LiveOS$ umount /dev/sdb1

root@ang-laptop:/mnt/iso/LiveOS$ ./livecd-iso-to-disk /home/ang/FedoraSetup/Fedora-12-i686-Live.iso /dev/sdb1

Verifying image...

./livecd-iso-to-disk: line 399: checkisomd5: command not found

Are you SURE you want to continue?

Press Enter to continue or ctrl-c to abort

Copying live image to USB stick

Updating boot config file

Installing boot loader

/media/usbdev.mWbVUH/syslinux is device /dev/sdb1

USB stick set up as live image!

root@ang-laptop:/mnt/iso/LiveOS$