Installing Fedora10 from USB Stick

Installing Fedora 10 from USB stick

1. Download Fedora-10-i386-DVD.iso
2. Download Fedora-10-i386-netinst.iso
3. Create 2 ext3 partitions in USB stick (Hint: GParted is a wicked graphical tool to create partitions): A 200 MB bootable partition and another partition with the rest of space.
4. Copy Fedora-10-i386-netinst.iso to 1st partition: 

   livecd-iso-to-disk Fedora-10-i386-netinst.iso /dev/sdb1

5. Extract images/ folder from Fedora-9-i386-DVD.iso and copy to 2nd partition:  

   mount -t iso9660 Fedora-10-i386-DVD.iso mnt-dvd/ -o loop
mount /dev/sdb2 mnt-sdb2/
cp -rp mnt-dvd/images mnt-sdb2/
umount mnt-dvd/

   Note: If you do a 'cp -a' as recommended in the Installing from Hard Drive section, you’ll get an error like this, so just use 'cp -rp' instead: 

   SELinux is preventing cp from creating a file with a context of iso9660_t on a filesystem. Usually this happens when you ask the cp command to maintain the context of a file when copying between file systems, "cp -a" for example. Not all file contexts should be maintained between the file systems. For example, a read-only file type like iso9660_t should not be placed on a r/w system. "cp -P" might be a better solution, as this will adopt the default file context for the destination. .
    

6. Copy DVD iso image to 2nd partition: 

   cp Fedora-10-i386-DVD.iso mnt-sdb2/
   umount mnt-sdb2/
    

7. Reboot with USB key inserted.
8. Select install from Hard Drive and select /dev/sdb2