Creating bootable Fedora USB with persistent storage
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I am attempting to burn the full Fedora 19 x86_64 DVD iso to a USB drive and have a separate partition on it for a kickstart file / other media that will be installed in the kickstart process.
With the Ubuntu server 12 iso, you can simply dd the iso to the usb drive:
dd if=/path/to/iso of=/dev/sdb
Once the iso has been burnt, open gparted and create a ext2 parition in the allocated space. However, this does not seem to work with the Fedora ISO. When loading the USB drive in gparted I get a warning and an error:
Warning: The driver descriptor says the physical block size is 2048 bytes, but Linux says it is 512 bytes.
Error: The partition's data region doesn't occupy the entire partition.
Ignoring both of these errors allows gparted to load the usb drive, however it shows a blank drive with no partition table.
Has anyone come across this before?
From what I have found, it may have something to do with the fact that Fedora use isohybrid.
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