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:

  1. Download the Fedora LiveCD ISO.
  2. Insert the USB stick and format it to ext2 using the Partition Editor (under System - Administration - Partition Editor; you may need to install it).
  3. Double click on the ISO and copy the file LiveOS/livecd-iso-to-disk from the ISO onto the Desktop.
  4. Use apt-get to install the package syslinux.

    sudo apt-get install syslinux
    
  5. 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).

Bookmarks for 2009-06-22 through 2009-07-09

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