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My question is I want to make a multiple boot net installation USB drive, which can boot and start network installation for several linux distributions. ie. FC10-i686, FC10-x64, RHEL5-i686, RHEL5-x64 etc.
So, the solution here does not suit me, because it is single boot, and it is using live-ISO, which is much bigger than netISO to fit on USB drive w/ multiple ISOs. I tried format the USB drive with HP USB tools, then use grubinst on the USB, then use WINGRUB to install grub on it. I extracted all files from FC10-i686-netinstall ISO to USB drive, edit MENU.LST as title Fedora Core 10 i386 kernel /boot/Fedora-10-i386/syslinux/vmlinuz initrd /boot/Fedora-10-i386/syslinux/initrd.img During the boot, when I select menu item of Fedora Core 10 i386, Grub tried to read my floppy drive instead of the USB drive itself. then report vmlinuz cannot be found. Any one can help me here? Thank you. |
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It uses boot.iso, which is ~100mb and will fit on a tiny usb disk |
USB Stick Install on a Mac Inquiry
How can you install from a usb stick on a Intel Mac? I like to pass on the information to people I know who also have a Mac...
Markus McLaughlin linuxglobe.wordpress.com Hudson, MA, USA |
I have the following question.
I've got an 8 GB USB-Stick, and would need to know if there is any realistic chance to have a fedora installation with only the bare necessities, which would mean for me: a video player like vlc which is able to play as many different video formats as possible I'd need no other programs. As I would need the stick to tranport a maximum of about 2 GB I'd get about 6 MB of usasble space. Is it reasonably possible to get it work, or should I take a 16 GB stick? |
The last two posters need to use google, there's a fedora spin named 'omega' which is aimed at multimedia.
Macs either support usb boots or they don't. |
Feeling more helpful today :), so
Soshin: You should be able to fit a reasonable install into 2GB. You'll probably not want to use a swap partition on the stick. If you don't want to experiment with package selection yourself then the easiest method is to install from a livecd, the F10 i686 Gnome LiveCD uses 2.1gb of disk space in a 3GB partition and a vlc install from rpmfusion will bring in another 45mb of rpm packages. You can then remove quite a few language packs in the install, since the LiveCD has to cater for an international audience and includes support for many asian languages for example which requires over 100mb of rpms. To see which rpm packages are using most space type Code:
rpm -qa --qf "%10{SIZE}\t%{NAME}\n" | sort -nBut if space is a prime requirement then Fedora is not the best solution, you should install something like slax which only takes ~200mb and has the excellent mplayer with codes peinstalled. LinuxGlobe: I posted a link above to apple support site where they mention that usb booting became possible with th G4 series od Macs, so for older models I think you're out of luck. If yours does support usb boot then just transfer the ppc image to a usb disk either by shrinking it to less than 4gb using isomaster as described for x86_64 dvd in post #2, or use a usb disk larger than 4gb and format it with ext2/3 so that the 4.3GB ppc dvd image will fit (fat32 will only allow files up to 4gb) |
I don't get it, I've taken the full dvd install image and used liveusbcreator to put it onto the usb (instead of the live cd iso) and it doesn't boot.
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Have you checked out this page? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_t...d_use_Live_USB
Please look at the troubleshooting section. I had a problem with creating a bootable USB stick until I tried first with another distribution (Pupeee) which set the USB stick up for booting. I wasn't happy with Pupeee, so I wiped it and overwrote the installation with Fedora. It worked for me. If all else fails, you could try that method. |
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So you have to transfer the boot.iso image with liveusbcreator (if F10 isn't in the drop down list just use F9, it doesn't matter) and then manually copy the dvd image to the stick. You also need to create a directory called 'images' on the usbstick and copy install.img to it (which is on the dvd in the images directory) see post #1 |
hi,
I get a message saying that the partition is not marked as bootable. How do I do that? Code:
[root@Ankur ~]# livecd-iso-to-disk --reset-mbr /mnt/iso/images/boot.iso /dev/sdb1Ankur |
hmm, I mistakenly thought that was automatic in F10 livecd-tools
You can follow the instructions given using parted instead, ie type (as root) Code:
parted /dev/sdb -s 'toggle 1 boot' |
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so finally this is what my usb disk looks like.. 1. the iso 2. images/install.img there isnt any boot file.. so its not booting.. :( regards, Ankur |
You now need to rerun the livecd-iso-to-disk command, it failed first time because of the "not bootable" error.
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BIOS doesnt support booting USB stick
I'm looking for a bootloader CD that can boot the stick for machines without USB boot capabilities.
Anyone have a boot from CD solution for this? |
Correction: OK I get it now... those are 2 commands below. one to mount the iso the other is a livecd commmand. My bad...no response needed.
My attempts to run the original cmd posted fails. I'm running Fedora 10 command prompt and follow the original instructions. The command response is the --reset-mbr is an unrecognized option??? How do I fix this in order to get a bootable usb Fedora 10. I have another PC that I need to do an install. Sideways post also mentions to "unmount the disk first"... Which disk? The usb, the dvd, the iso... PHP Code:
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