Putting a Fedora LiveCD onto a USB Stick from Ubuntu
I wanted to try out the Fedora LiveCD on my netbook, however I really only use Ubuntu and the utility on Ubuntu to create a USB boot disk only supports converting an Ubuntu ISO.
I figured out how to convert the Fedora ISO and get it onto a USB stuck from within Ubuntu. The steps follow:
- Download the Fedora LiveCD ISO.
- Insert the USB stick and format it to ext2 using the Partition Editor (under System - Administration - Partition Editor; you may need to install it).
- Double click on the ISO and copy the file LiveOS/livecd-iso-to-disk from the ISO onto the Desktop.
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Use apt-get to install the package syslinux.
sudo apt-get install syslinux
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Use the script you copied off of the ISO to create the bootable running the following command.
livecd-iso-to-disk --overlay-size-mb 512 /path/to/iso /path/tousbstick
You will have to change the /path/to/iso to reference the path of the Fedora ISO and also change /path/tousbstick to the path of the USB stuck (usually /media/disk).

