Install Fedora 16 on a USB flash drive

 

There are many ways to boot a USB flash drive. You can use the following two methods:

1. use tools such as UltralISO and UNetbootin to burn an ISO image to a USB flash drive. Then, the USB flash drive starts and you can see your face. I tried it many times and only once succeeded, it may be related to USB flash drive parameters. You can use USBoot to modify the following USB flash drive mode.

2. Use tools to create a USB flash drive as a boot disk, and then place the Fedora files in the appropriate place.

If you use the second method, perform the following steps:

Required tools:

1. grubinst-1.1-bin-w32-2008-01-01: http://download.gna.org/grubutil

2. grub4dos-0.4.4: http://download.gna.org/grub4dos

Extract grubinst-1.1-bin-w32-2008-01-01

Run the grubinst_gui.exe file, select your USB flash drive in disk options, and then install it.

 

If you see

The installation is successful !!!

Extract grub4dos-0.4.4

Copy the grldr and menu. lst files under the grub4dos-0.4.4 to the u disk root directory.

 

In addition, you download the installation image (such as my: Fedora-16-Beta-i386-DVD.iso) copy to the U disk root directory.

Copy the initrd. imgfile and vmlinux file under the isolinux directory in the image to the root directory of the USB flash drive.

Copy the images folder in the image to the root directory of the USB flash drive. // if you do not know how to use it, you can get it out first.

 

After completing the above prelude, the root directory of the USB flash drive looks like this

 

The last step is to modify the menu. lst file.

Add the following at the end of the file:

Title F16 setup Root (hd0, 0) Kernel/vmlinuz root =/dev/hda1 Initrd/initrd. img

// You may need to adjust the parameters for different USB flash drives.

 

After the above flirting, you can enter the topic. Restart the machine, set the boot from the USB flash drive, and then click next --> next.

It should be noted that the installation process needs to be networked, and I cannot determine whether the installation method is online or local. I installed it like this.

Last few images:

 

From the blog that Lu has been following