What command-line syntax creates live USB media from a Fedora 19 PPC image?
I'm trying to create a live Fedora 19 USB drive for use on PPC architecture. The liveusb-creator app fails to do it, and gives the error messages below. If I'm not mistaken, live USB media as well as live disks can be created using the command-line, but I don't know the syntax.
Here is the content of the file /tmp/liveusb-creator.log:
/sbin/dosfslabel /dev/sdb1 LIVE0x41: Dirty bit is set. Fs was not properly unmounted and some data may be corrupt. Automatically removing dirty bit. checkisomd5 "/run/media/twofeathers/EHD/Fedora-19-ppc64-DVD.iso"
/sbin/e2label /dev/sdb1 LIVE
checkisomd5 "/run/media/twofeathers/EHD/Fedora-19-ppc64-DVD.iso"
/sbin/e2label /dev/sdb1 LIVE
checkisomd5 "/run/media/twofeathers/EHD/Fedora-19-ppc64-DVD.iso"
checkisomd5 "/home/twofeathers/Fedora-19-ppc64-DVD.iso"Press [Esc] to abort check.
The media check is complete, the result is: PASS.
It is OK to use this media.
mount -o loop,ro "/home/twofeathers/Fedora-19-ppc64-DVD.iso" /tmp/tmpwA4IOM
cp /tmp/tmpwA4IOM/LiveOS/squashfs.img '/media/e6052291-9682-42ad-93dc-4a596d151468/LiveOS/squashfs.img'
cp /tmp/tmpwA4IOM/isolinux/* '/media/e6052291-9682-42ad-93dc-4a596d151468/isolinux' cp: cannot stat ‘/tmp/tmpwA4IOM/isolinux/*’: No such file or directory
/sbin/e2label /dev/sdb1 LIVE
checkisomd5 "/home/twofeathers/Fedora-19-ppc64-DVD.iso"
checkisomd5 "/home/twofeathers/Fedora-19-ppc64-DVD.iso"Press [Esc] to abort check.
The media check is complete, the result is: PASS.
It is OK to use this media.
mount -o loop,ro "/home/twofeathers/Fedora-19-ppc64-DVD.iso" /tmp/tmpcfdRpB
cp /tmp/tmpcfdRpB/LiveOS/squashfs.img '/run/media/twofeathers/7b3651a1-23e8-4867-a7c1-043b2846a998/LiveOS/squashfs.img'
cp /tmp/tmpcfdRpB/isolinux/* '/run/media/twofeathers/7b3651a1-23e8-4867-a7c1-043b2846a998/isolinux' cp: cannot stat ‘/tmp/tmpcfdRpB/isolinux/*’: No such file or directory
The above output show that the liveusb-creator software expects to find a directory named isolinux inside the /tmp/ directory. After extracting the Fedora-19-ppc64-DVD.iso image onto a disk, I saw that no directory named isolinux existed. Apparently that's why the liveusb-creator app exited w\ a failure message.
PPC is a different hardware architecture from x86. It has a different boot mechanism, and requires its own boot-loader. Isolinux is used in the x86 media. I’m afraid I don’t know enough about PPC to help, but despite the current answers, don’t expect the popular documented methods to work unless they explicitly mention PPC.