USB boot without live CD image
 

Hi
I wish to install Fedora 8 on my 8gb usb drive.
I did a lot of googling and all places I could find spoke of installing
a live CD image which cant be updated.
(As I understand it, the image again needs to be recreated elsewhere and put into USB.)
It would be nice if I could use something like yum to update my installation in the USB itself.
I have a 4gb Transcend pen drive.

Any pointers to information on this will be really helpful.

Thanks for any help in advance.

Does the usb drive show up in the installation program's installer? If so, use the installation program to format and install to the pendrive. You don't want to have a swap partition on a pen drive. You also want the partitions mounted with the noatime option to prevent updating a file's timestamp after a read.

Hey thanks!
It seemed my earlier pendrive had some problem. It wasnt getting detected by the installation disk. I used a new drive (SanDisk Cruzer Micro Skin) and it installed like charm.
I turned off swap all together and set the noatime option in /etc/fstab for the mounting of root. Verified that it works.

However I have one concern. The led on my pen drive remains continuously on when I boot Fedora. It happens only when transfers are happening to/from USB drive.
I want to make sure whether I need to tweak other things for this.
Could you please let me know what all I need to do more.
Would turning off the kernel logger be ok?