fedora 9 - thumb drive installation problem
 

hi,

I managed to install fedora 9 in 1 gb thumb drive (first time i am doing this) with 193 mb persistant overlay. I was able to boot properly using the thumb drive. After i started using firefox (first time from thumb drive installation), whole system was hung and i tried to shutdown, fedora was giving me an error "Couldnt shutdown the system". I got some error like Input/Output error.

After forced shutdown by pressing the button from notebook, i restarted, now fedora is not able to start :(. Sync error

I want to re-install fedora in thumb drive. Is it normal in thumb drive installations? If this is normal, then i plan not to use this thumb drive way of booting.

Thanks

might need more space in your "changes" overlay. The Firefox cache might have exhausted all your writeable space. I'd recommend 512MB as a minumum. Also you'll probably want at least 768MB of RAM to attempt a boot from a thumb drive.

I use PCLinuxOS on a thumb drive routinely. It's good to keep a gzipped copy of the "changes" filesystem on a hard drive somewhere though. Makes things easier to "ghost" back later.

thanks.. will consider buying 4gb thumb drive :)