[fwlug] Fedora 9 on a stick

[Vern Ceder]

Good work on the usb installer - it can be a real lifesaver when a 
machine's CDROM is bad, or with laptops. Good luck on conquering the 
wifi issue.

Cheers,
Vern

Michael Kerney wrote:
> Thanks to drinking a lot of Coke (thanks mycokerewards!) I got a free 
> new 1GB thumb drive. I decided to try the Fedora 9 on a stick installer 
> thing (Lifehacker post 
> <http://lifehacker.com/391067/fedora-9-puts-your-desktop-on-a-usb-drive>) 
> and it worked, mostly. It took 2 hours to download the liveCD image, 
> though I blame Comcast more for that.
> 
> Unfortunately, F9 doesn't like the Vaio wireless out of the box, either. 
> It also doesn't seem to really like 1280x800 laptop resolution, 
> something Ubuntu doesn't mind.
> 
> Just thought I'd mention it.
> 
> (I did get wireless almost working thanks to Ben - up to a wlan0 device 
> being there! - but it's sporadic. More hammering at it will be necessary.)
> 
> -Michael
> 
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