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Old 30th June 2009, 01:05 PM
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There is no boot.iso for F11.

If you have Fedora 9/10 (even a livecd session) and you want to transfer the Fedora 11 DVD to a usb stick, here are the steps (all done as root)

If you don't want to wipe your usb stick, don't do this first bit, this assumes the stick is /dev/sdb, and will completely wipe it

Code:
yum install livecd-tools syslinux
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1000
parted /dev/sdb mklabel msdos
parted /dev/sdb mkpartfs p ext2 0% 100%
tune2fs -m0 /dev/sdb1
You can use fat32 in place of ext2, but beware that if your stick is >4GB that max file size is 4GB in fat32, so an iso image larger than this won't copy.

Now, these next steps should be followed by everyone

Code:
parted /dev/sdb toggle 1 boot
umount /dev/sdb1
livecd-iso-to-disk <path to>/Fedora-11-i386-DVD.iso /dev/sdb1
Now mount the usb stick (eg. just remove and reinsert) then copy install.img and the whole dvd iso image across (takes ages)

Code:
mkdir /mnt/iso
mount -o loop <path to>/Fedora-11-i386-DVD.iso /mnt/iso
mkdir /media/<usb stick>/images
cp /mnt/iso/images/install.img /media/<usb stick>/images/
cp <path to>/Fedora-11-i386-DVD.iso /media/<usb stick>/
Finished!. You can test with qemu (if installed)

Code:
qemu -m 512 /dev/sdb
(That will just check that the usb stick boots into the installer, don't actually try to install from qemu)

Last edited by sideways; 2nd July 2009 at 08:41 AM.
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