On Mon, 2018-04-23 at 23:52 +0300, Aleksandar Kostadinov wrote: > ja wrote on 04/23/18 20:28: > > On Mon, 2018-04-23 at 17:20 +0300, Aleksandar Kostadinov wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm reading documentation [1] for Fedora on a USB stick. The only option > > > to have a portable fedora on a stick seems to be by creating an overlay > > > FS and this certainly leads to getting out of disk space at some point. > > > > > > I would really like to create Fedora on USB that I can plug anywhere and > > > work off it. > > > > > > I was thinking that perhaps I can just install regular fedora on a USB > > > stick like I would do on a hard drive. Then it can be updated and used > > > just like any other Fedora machine. Perhaps disable persistent logging > > > and swap so that flash memory doesn't wear out. > > > > > > One issue I presently know about is dracut. It creates by default images > > > that only support a specific hardware. i.e. if I install kernel on a > > > machine with an nforce disk controller, it will put in intird only that > > > module thus Fedora will not boot on a machine with AHCI controller. > > > > > > Maybe this wouldn't matter when all things are on the USB drive but then > > > can there be a problem with different USB controller modules? > > > > > > I was wondering if anybody tried that and has tips for greated > > > portability. > > > > > > Thank you, > > > Aleksandar > > > > > > > > > > I have been doing this for several years, currently F27, > > but only as a recovery Stick. > > I just do a standard install but use a custom disk layout > > using ext4 / partition - no LMV. > > gdisk -l /dev/sda > > Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name > > > > 1 2048 1026047 500.0 MiB EF00 EFI System > > 2 1026048 1028095 1024.0 KiB EF02 BIOS boot > > partition > > 3 1028096 3125247 1024.0 MiB 8300 Linux filesystem > > 4 3125248 19902463 8.0 GiB 8200 Linux swap > > 5 19902464 61800414 20.0 GiB 8300 Linux filesystem > > > > I have recently been using a Corsair GT 32GB stick > > Thanks a lot for the tip! I am also planning to start with a 32GB USB > 3.0 stick. It looks like though that you are having EFI and BIOS mode > both supported. Would you share how did you achieve it? >
I usually pre-format SSD's, sticks with a "standard" partition layout using gdisk before installing Fedora. This was it for this stick - "BIOS" & "EFI" boot partitions. All my machines have compatibility mode for booting. F27 was installed on this stick on a machine with EFI but "BIOS" mode was selected/forced during installation. I have just re-tested the stick It will boot on a 10 year old laptop with dual AMD Althon & only USB2. Also on Intel i7-6700K machine using "BIOS" mode. John _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
