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Fedora bootable USB installer

I want to put the Fedora DVD image onto a bootable USB drive. If my usb drive is at /dev/sdb is this as simple as:

dd if=FC-6-i386-DVD.iso of=/dev/sdb

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nedvis

Answer is : "No!"

nedvis

What version Fedora Core do you have?
What USB boot mode your system BIOS has support for : USB-HDD , USB-ZIP or USB - FDD ?
Just by copying DVD iso image to USB pen drive does not mean flash drive will become bootable even if your USB drive capacity is OK and your PC has support for booting off USB devices.
You have to INSTALL Linux in USB flash drive with all valid boot parameters

phasevar

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I don't want to install Fedora onto the USB, I want to make a bootable USB installer so that I can plug my USB drive into a blank machine, boot off of it, and install Fedora to the machine's hard disk as if I was installing from the install DVD.

The bios supports booting from usb, I have the latest install DVD (Fedora Core 6) and I have a 4gb usb drive which will hold the entire contents of the install dvd. I just need to know how I can go about getting the install iso onto the usb drive in a way that allows the usb drive to boot into the installer the same way the installer dvd would.

nedvis

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/fc6/en/sn-preparing-usb-media.html

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