{"id":230,"date":"2014-03-10T20:55:06","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T20:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/?p=230"},"modified":"2014-03-20T16:34:21","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T16:34:21","slug":"how-to-make-a-live-bootable-fedora-thumb-drive-from-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/how-to-make-a-live-bootable-fedora-thumb-drive-from-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Make a Live Bootable Fedora Thumb Drive in Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Insert your thumb drive into the computer.<\/p>\n<p>We need to find out where the thumb drive is mounted.\u00a0 We can do this with the &#8220;df&#8221; command as shown below or you can find it in dmesg.<\/p>\n<p>So if we run the df command<\/p>\n<pre>df -h<\/pre>\n<p>It returns something like this<\/p>\n<pre>[me@fedora ~]$ df -h\r\nFilesystem               Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on\r\n\/dev\/mapper\/fedora-root   50G   11G   37G  23% \/\r\ndevtmpfs                 1.9G     0  1.9G   0% \/dev\r\ntmpfs                    1.9G  1.2M  1.9G   1% \/dev\/shm\r\ntmpfs                    1.9G  1.1M  1.9G   1% \/run\r\ntmpfs                    1.9G     0  1.9G   0% \/sys\/fs\/cgroup\r\ntmpfs                    1.9G   52K  1.9G   1% \/tmp\r\n\/dev\/sdb1                477M  115M  333M  26% \/boot\r\n\/dev\/mapper\/fedora-home  176G  125G   42G  75% \/home\r\n\/dev\/sdc1                3.8G  3.2G  592M  85% \/run\/media\/me\/136A-7360\r\n[me@fedora ~]$<\/pre>\n<p>Note that the bottom one is the thumb drive <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\/dev\/sdc1<\/span> yours may differ.<\/p>\n<p>Now that we know where the drive is mounted we can write the image to the thumb drive.<\/p>\n<p>Change the path in &#8220;if=\/&#8221; to the path to your Fedora iso and change &#8220;of=\/&#8221; to you thumb drive path<\/p>\n<pre>su -c \"dd if=\/home\/me\/Downloads\/Fedora-Live-x86_64-20-1.iso of=\/dev\/sdc bs=8M\"<\/pre>\n<p>It will take a couple of minutes to complete and it will not give you any information until it is finished.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, you now have a live working Fedora thumb drive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insert your thumb drive into the computer. We need to find out where the thumb drive is mounted.\u00a0 We can do this with the &#8220;df&#8221; command as shown below or you can find it in dmesg. So if we run &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/how-to-make-a-live-bootable-fedora-thumb-drive-from-linux\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,3],"tags":[84,83,19,7,64,58],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fedora-2","category-linux","tag-bootable-fedora-drive","tag-bootable-thumbdrive","tag-fedora","tag-linux-2","tag-usb-boot-drive","tag-usb-drive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}