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).

Sat 2009.07.11 [ Linux ]

7 Responses to “Putting a Fedora LiveCD onto a USB Stick from Ubuntu”

  1. Putting a Fedora LiveCD onto a USB Stick from Ubuntu | Ubuntu-News - Your one stop for news about Ubuntu Says:
    July 12th, 2009 at 16:24:06

    [...] and the utility on Ubuntu to create a USB boot disk only supports converting an Ubuntu ISO. More here I figured out how to convert the Fedora ISO and get it onto a USB stuck from within Ubuntu. The [...]

  2. Matt Says:
    August 27th, 2009 at 10:12:47

    nice little write up.

    make sure that /path/tousbstick is to the device, not to a mounted partition. the script will fail without reason otherwise.

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    April 10th, 2011 at 10:47:08

    [...] a Live USB workes such that my HP EliteBook 8400p would boot them. The procedure described by Jordon Mears came closest. The only technical difference is, that for some obscure reason, the machine [...]

  4. Wilker Says:
    October 11th, 2011 at 21:17:02

    thank you! just what i was looking for!

  5. marcin Says:
    November 15th, 2011 at 13:07:56

    Thanx, just what I was looking for for last two days!!!!

  6. Geoffrey Says:
    January 5th, 2012 at 08:40:52

    Doesn’t work with the latest fedora script.
    Apparently, the blkid command behaves differently between fedora and ubuntu?

  7. jordoncm Says:
    January 5th, 2012 at 17:32:25

    Yeah, I haven’t looked at this in a few builds of Fedora or Ubuntu.

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