'poor man's install', again for Fedora 17. (See my earlier post for Fedora 16)
Use fdisk to create a FAT32 partition large enough to hold the live distro, in my case /dev/sda8 below
Format it using mkfs or gparted.
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xaa9baa9b
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 2048 24578047 12288000 27 Hidden NTFS WinRE
/dev/sda2 * 24578048 24782847 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 24782848 502260399 238738776 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4 502261760 625142447 61440344 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 502263808 503287807 512000 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 503289856 605689855 51200000 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 605691904 613883903 4096000 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda8 613885952 625141759 5627904 b W95 FAT32
findiso
kernel /isolinux/vmlinuz0 root=live:LABEL=Fedora-17-x86_64-Live-Desktop.is rootfstype=auto ro liveimg quiet rhgb
initrd /isolinux/initrd0.img..
title Fedora-17-x86_64-Live-Desktop.is
root (hd0,7)
kernel /isolinux/vmlinuz0 root=UUID=B381-1423 rootfstype=auto rw liveimg quiet rhgb
initrd /isolinux/initrd0.img
Use fdisk to create a FAT32 partition large enough to hold the live distro, in my case /dev/sda8 below
Format it using mkfs or gparted.
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xaa9baa9b
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 2048 24578047 12288000 27 Hidden NTFS WinRE
/dev/sda2 * 24578048 24782847 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 24782848 502260399 238738776 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4 502261760 625142447 61440344 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 502263808 503287807 512000 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 503289856 605689855 51200000 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 605691904 613883903 4096000 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda8 613885952 625141759 5627904 b W95 FAT32
Mount the iso image, and copy files from it
su
cd /mnt/
mkdir iso live
mount -o loop -t iso9660 ~/Downloads/Fedora-Live.iso iso
mount -t vfat /dev/sda8 live
cp -r iso/* live/
Examine the grub conf on the live distro -
cat /mnt/live/EFI/boot/grub.conf
..
title Fedora-17-x86_64-Live-Desktop.isfindiso
kernel /isolinux/vmlinuz0 root=live:LABEL=Fedora-17-x86_64-Live-Desktop.is rootfstype=auto ro liveimg quiet rhgb
initrd /isolinux/initrd0.img..
Find the UUID of your live partition -
[steve@aspireone753 ~]$ ls -lF /dev/disk/by-uuid
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 10 Nov 13 11:33 B381-1423 ->; ../../sda8
Then edit the regular grub.conf on your main linux installation. Changes needed are shown in bold.
sudo vi /boot/grub/grub.conf
paste in a new entry, copied from the live distro -
root (hd0,7)
kernel /isolinux/vmlinuz0 root=UUID=B381-1423 rootfstype=auto rw liveimg quiet rhgb
initrd /isolinux/initrd0.img
Reboot, and choose the live distro at the grub menu.
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