On Tue, 2020-12-29 at 12:53 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > On Mon, 2020-12-28 at 20:37 -0500, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote: > > How would I go about creating a usb bootable (portable) installation > > of Fedora? > > I am aware of the Live Fedora 33 Workstation images. But, for > > example, when boothing from that, your settings (program setting) are > > not saved. > > How can I have a Fedora usb that I can use on different pcs? Where I > > have additional software installed? And settings? And maybe even a > > permanent /home storage space? > > In theory, just plug in the drive and do an installation to that drive. > > You'll need to configure your PC's BIOS/UEFI to boot from the USB > drive, too. It might already be pre-configured to try doing that. > > -- > I create a bootable USB version of each Fedora release - just in case!
I use an XFCE live USB stick as the source and "install to disk" to a second USB stick - 5 minutes. (after sorting out a custom ext4 layout) [All my machines are now UEFI so dual BIOS/UEFI boot not required] I would strongly recommend the Flash Voyager® GTX USB 3.1 such as https://www.corsair.com/uk/en/Categories/Products/Storage/USB-Drives/flash-voyager-gtx-3-1-config/p/CMFVYGTX3C-128GB Very fast and can be trimmed - you can tell it is slower than a SATA SSD but not enough to worry about in an emergency. I do the following as well but not certain this is still necessary. "dnf install dracut-config-generic To force a generic initramfs F33 This installs a single file /usr/lib/dracut/dracut.conf.d/02-generic-image.conf hostonly="no" To force an existing kernel to use a "fully configured" initramfs file then dracut --regenerate-all --force Not checked F33 NB this will regenerate and over-write all /boot/initramfs* files Make copies first if required." John _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
