Booting off of a thumb drive?

[Jim Cornette]

dan wrote:

> Hello, all -
>
> I've been trying to do some research on booting off of a thumb drive.  
> I plan to finish creating a small distribution based off of Fedora, 
> but I'd like to boot it off of a thumb drive.  However, I can't find 
> any solid documentation on how to actually BOOT the system off of the 
> drive.
>
> Anyone have any experience in this area?
>
> Thanks!
> -dant
>
I recently was asked if this could be done and then the person asking 
did some research and said it couldn't.

After your question, I did a google search that referenced booting from 
a thumb drive. If your bios supports booting from a usb-hdd, then it 
should be formatable with fdisk.

I don't know how Fedora would react since the USB driver is not included 
within the default kernel intird image. I found this link for doing this 
in DOS. I will try this tomorrow. Regarding Fedora, this purpose of 
booting from thumb drives or USB HDs in general should be enough reason 
to include USB support within the intird image.

Thanks for the question. I took the cannot be done answer to be reality. 
Good Luck with your project.

The link that I found.

http://www.trekstorusa.com/downloads/bootdisk.pdf

Jim

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