[FredLUG] Re: Meeting 2007-10-16

[Paul W. Frields]

On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 22:24 -0400, Mark Walker wrote:
> I would be interested in going over making bootable thumb drives.  I
> have a specific reason for this:  I'm working on a new 64-bit computer
> I just built and I want to put Fedora linux on it.  
> 
> 
> For some reason , it won't recognize the old IDE CD drives I have and
> I need another way to boot into the Fedora boot CD.  Tried dd'ing
> boot.iso for x86_64 to a thumb drive but it won't recognize it, even
> though the 
> thumb drive lights up.  I know the bios sees the usb 500 GB hard drive
> I want to install onto because it shows up on the initial screen.
> Next to try copying all files from a mounted boot.iso image to
> a formatted thumb drive, and see if the new system sees that.
> 
> 
> Still working on getting the broadcom wifi on my notebook to work, but
> that is another project.

These sound like good topics!  I can't speak for everyone who'll be
there, but it might be a good idea to bring the machine in question
since you might need to check the BIOS setup.

Keep in mind that booting is more than just having some files present --
your BIOS needs to read specific instructions from the boot record of
the device (hard disk, CD, flash, etc.).  There's no doubt that an
x86_64 machine has a USB-bootable BIOS, so you're good there.  It's
probably just a matter of formatting the flash correctly.

Fedora 7, for example, has a "livecd-tools" package you can install
which has a helper for making a bootable flash out of a Fedora Live
image.  That might help you in this case.  There are plenty of ways to
make bootable flash disks, so good luck and have fun!

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