- Download netinst ISO file:
- Log in as root:
su -
- Find out which device maps to the USB flash drive:
- using
dmesg | tail
- using
fdisk -l
. NOTE: use /dev/sdd instead of /dev/sdd1 because the later one is the partition.
- using
- Burn the ISO file into USB flash drive. The content in the drive will be overwritten using this way.
dd if=/home/ben/Downloads/Fedora-Workstation-netinst-i386-22.iso of=/dev/sdd
- If it doesn't reboot the machine and you may see a blinking cursor, please change "USB Emulation Type" in your BIOS settings from Auto to Hard Disk, and try again.
My machine is a pretty old one, with a K8V-MX motherboard and AMI BIOS v02.54 (C)Copyright 1985-2003.
In my BIOS: the emulation type could be found like this:
- press DEL to enter BIOS setup.
- Advanced -> Chipset -> USB Configuration.
- It will show the information like this:
Module version -2.24.0-7.4 USB Devices Enabled: 1 Drive USB Mass StorageDevice Configuration
- Enter "USB Mass Storage Device Configuration", you will find "Emulation Type"
I also tried to recreate a FAT32 filesystem in my 4GB USB drive, but it didn't work even I changed to hard disk for usb emulation type. Not sure what is wrong yet."
On a Window 7, here is how to format the drive is already burned using dd: Start -> Computer -> (Right click) -> Manage -> Disk Management
- Delete the volume of 510MB;
- Create a new volume using 4GB;
- Format using FAT32;
There is not a bootable partition after you finish, but after using liveusb-creator, the partition is
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