[SOLVED] live usb stick netbook

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I cannot start up my live-usb from my boot screen. It is not present there. However, my desktop does recognize the usb stick and I can boot from it.

I formatted the usb stick to fat32 and installed F16 LXDE x86_64 using the live-usb creator.

Please help me installing Fedora

[sea]

Maybe you have to press a key at boot time, usualy where the hardware vendors logo is shown.
For setup its usualy F1 or F2 or del.
For boot menu its usualy: F8 or F12.

If you cant get a boot menu shown, maybe you can change the bootorder and move usbkey before harddisk.

Hope this helps.

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@sea

I did both. The boot options only showed the HDD. Setting the usb drive at a higher priority did not help either. The thing is that it simply not registers the usb drive at boot. I also looked for things to activate the usb hubs, but that option does not exist in the BIOS.

The funny thing was that I could boot the previous image that was on the usb stick (opensuse 12.1) before I installed Fedora on the stick.

Using a good 'ol Live CD is impossible, since my netbook does not have a cd/dvd drive.

[sea]

Hmm, might want to check which is your USB-key with

lsblk

and then

sudo dd if=$HOME/Downloads/Fedora-16-x86_64-Live-LXDE.iso of=/dev/USB

Change USB to your device item (like sdb sdc).

[Pitfall]

Thanks alot sea, I have now installed fedora on my netbook. Too bad it is not LXDE, because the functions keys were not responding. So now it is Gnome shell until I have found a decent solution.