[ale] Using LiveUSB for Fedora

Michael Trausch mike at trausch.us
Tue Sep 28 14:22:04 EDT 2010


I would *highly* recommend the Lacie Iamakey drive, it is made to last and
actually won't break off of a keychain. It is the only drive I have had on
my keychain that has lasted more than two weeks.  I have had mine for almost
a year.

I have the 4 GB version, but they offer them up to 32GB if memory serves me.
For a live system I would go at least 8 GB, 1 partition, with a swap file
instead of a swap partition.

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On Sep 28, 2010 1:56 PM, "Scott Castaline" <skotchman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 09/28/2010 11:18 AM, Chuck Payne wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Scott Castaline<skotchman at gmail.com>
wrote:
>>> Looking for advice on utilizing a LiveUSB Flash Drive. I'll be going
>>> to Fla. for several weeks and want to be able to use Fedora on a Windows
>>> PC without actually installing it on the hard drive. I want to know the
>>> following:
>>>
>>> 1. Recommended sizes of flash drive
>>> 2. Will I be able to install additional software onto the drive?
>>> 3. Can I change the LiveUser to another user?
>>> 4. Can I copy files from my home system onto the LiveUSB?
>>> 5. How changeable is the system once booted?
>>>
>>> I have installed Fedora 13 Live using liveusb-create onto a 2GB Flash
>>> Drive and attempted to install GnuCash. It came up with a large list of
>>> dependencies that needed to be also installed and then appeared to do
>>> nothing, so I'm not sure if maybe the 2GB is not enough room or it just
>>> can't do it. Any assistance would be appreciated. Also I plan on using
>>> Fedora 13 x86_32 as I'm not sure what the system specs are that I'll be
>>> using.
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>> I would commend 8 Gig to 16 Gig flash drive. I used SUSE studio to
>> create me a nice portable Gnome desktop. I know that Fedora recommends
>> 1gig, but if you are going to use it a lot have a bit of space to grow
>> on...
>>
>>
http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/362829-weekend-project-create-a-live-usb-key-linux-distribution
>> https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/
>>
>> You might have these two links, but I have included them just to help.
>>
> Had the 2nd but not the first. I had even tried using UNetbootin, but it
> seemed that no matter which menu option I used, it seemed to be trying
> to install itself onto my hard drives. As far as the size of flash goes
> I was leaning towards 16GB, but wanted to hear from other people on the
> list if that would be considered overkill or still not enough.
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