boot installation from Pendrive?

LinuxNewbie999 · 02-24-2008, 06:49 AM

is it possible to boot Fedora 8 installation ISO file from pendrive??

Glennzo · 02-24-2008, 07:12 AM

You can install Fedora Live to a USB stick and boot that. I've done it. Works well.

LinuxNewbie999 · 02-24-2008, 09:39 PM

What if i use a external harddisk to boot the ISO file? Do i need to clean other files in the external hardisk and left only the ISO file? Or it will search the ISO file itself??

Glennzo · 02-25-2008, 03:33 AM

Don't know about that. All my installations have been from burned DVD's. or CD's. When I installed to the thumb drive I had the ISO on the desktop and used it with the install method so there was no ISO written to the thumb drive. I backed up my thumb drive first just in case things went wrong. Turns out I didn't need to do that as none of the existing files were touched.

LinuxNewbie999 · 02-25-2008, 08:30 AM

I also burned the Fedora8-i386.iso but the booting failed..z.zzz But did you managed to boot it??? Did you unzzip the file after download?? I'm using XP to download and burn it.

Glennzo · 02-25-2008, 06:03 PM

Have a look at this....http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo