Install Express CD 5.4 from USB - Guide using linux!

[rooney10]

Ok, after reading the wiki from here: http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/USB_Install I notice that this does not work with F12. For the last day or 2 I've been going nuts trying to install Amahi from a F12 DVD Iso from a USB stick onto my server, but I kept getting errors when adding the Amahi repo to it!

So I thought why not try the methods used in creating the usb installer for F12 on Amahi, and to my pleasant surprise it worked!!

Note, this guide is written for F12, but may work on other Fedora versions above. I know for F11 and below these steps are slightly different!

Note: This was all done on a windows machine running Fedora 12 in Virtual Box!

1) Plug in USB Drive, Fedora will mount this, wait until it opens the USB drive and close it. On the desktop will be an icon for you USB drive, right click and "unmount" it.

2) Open up terminal, log in as root. The following will install livecd iso to disk to carry out the procedure and will delete everything on your USB stick and format it to ext2. This assumes the usb stick is located at /dev/sdb.

Enter the following commands:

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yum install livecd-tools syslinux dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1000 parted /dev/sdb mklabel msdos parted /dev/sdb mkpartfs p ext2 0% 100% tune2fs -m0 /dev/sdb1

3) Now you have the necessary tools and a formatted USB drive.

Now you need to make sure your drive is bootable, which can be done by entering this command:

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parted /dev/sdb toggle 1 boot

4) Unmount your drive by this command:

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umount /dev/sdb1

5) Now the following will copy the Express CD iso to the USB drive, This will copy the image file, the full iso and create syslinux folder.

You will have to make sure your ISO is in a relevant folder. Mine is assumed to be in the download folders, user is the name I defined when setting up Fedora.

Enter the following:

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livecd-iso-to-disk <path to>/Amahi-5.4-Express-2.6-Beta-x86_64.iso /dev/sdb1

So in my case it was: livecd-iso-to-disk /home/user/Downloads/Amahi-5.4-Express-2.6-Beta-x86_64.iso /dev/sdb1

This will take quite a while, so grab yourself a copy, read a book or whatever you feel like, and once done you'll be notified in terminal!

Voila, you now have a bootable Express CD on USB, to complete rest of the installation follow Step 4 onwards from this guide http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/USB_Install

Hopefully this will work for those having troubles as well, if not then let me know.

[bigfoot65]

This is great stuff. We would appreciate if you could add a wiki page with detailed instructions. Our goal is to maintain tips and guidance that will assist other users in the wiki as much as possible.

I will have to try this myself and see how it works. I presume you need a working Fedora 12 system or Live CD to do this, correct?

[rooney10]

This is great stuff. We would appreciate if you could add a wiki page with detailed instructions. Our goal is to maintain tips and guidance that will assist other users in the wiki as much as possible.

I will have to try this myself and see how it works. I presume you need a working Fedora 12 system or Live CD to do this, correct?

Yup I carried out the procedure on F12, should work with a Live CD as well. I presume this will work with 12 and above as the livecd-iso-to-disk was slightly changed in 12 where it copies the images etc in one process, where as in 11 and below I think, you had to do --resetbmr and then mount the iso and copy contents. So the easiest way is to stick with F12 or above (not tried on 13 or 14 but should work the same)!