FC7 Live CD... I don't understand how to use it

Charles Curley charlescurley at charlescurley.com
Fri Jun 15 15:51:25 UTC 2007


On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 11:44:31AM +0200, Thomas Fischer wrote:
> Ok so call me stupid but I thought that a LiveCD would allow me to boot 
> into a working FC7 environment on my machine without having to install. 
> At least most of the other major distribs that support LiveCDs do it 
> that way.
> 
> However I downloaded the FC7live cd image and burnt it onto a CD. when I 
> boot it, it gives me no option to run FC7. Just 2 versions of install or 
> update, one rescue option and one boot the HD.
> 
> So how do I run FC7 from the Live CD? It makes no sense...

I wonder if you pulled in the wrong CD image by some sort of
mistake. You should have a directory, Fedora-7-Live-i686, and in it
these two files:

-rw-r--r--  1 root root 733427712 May 31 11:36 Fedora-7-Live-i686.iso
-rw-r--r--  1 root root       370 May 31 11:35 SHA1SUM

List the contents of SHA1SUM; you should see:

[root at charlesc root]# cat ../../Fedora-7-Live-i686/SHA1SUM 
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

9f7caedd316d28686cb320c1640d07d403ab95ef  Fedora-7-KDE-Live-i686.iso
2e08a33703b46e9484c9472d76caa4ef8a2b15b9  Fedora-7-Live-i686.iso
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFGWke3tEJp0E8qb9IRAky/AKCDTCBkuiv5cKgaEr053ij1Zu2ZgQCcDJys
JW6AFIPRLKPXGdqCgjm5XlY=
=o5jw
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

If you run sha1sum, you should see, e.g.:

[root at charlesc Fedora-7-Live-i686]# sha1sum -c SHA1SUM 
sha1sum: Fedora-7-KDE-Live-i686.iso: No such file or directory
Fedora-7-KDE-Live-i686.iso: FAILED open or read
Fedora-7-Live-i686.iso: OK
sha1sum: WARNING: 1 of 2 listed files could not be read



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