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= FedoraLiveCD
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[NOTE]
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[[download-and-create-live-image-or-live-usb]]
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Download and Create Live image or Live USB
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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To download a pre-built Fedora Live image, visit
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https://getfedora.org/[the download page]. Then you can either:
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* Burn the ISO to a CD or DVD. See
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http://docs.fedoraproject.org/readme-burning-isos/[here] for burning
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instructions.
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* Learn link:how_to_create_and_use_Live_USB[how to create and use Live
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USB].
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If you want to build and then burn your own custom ISO, see
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link:How_to_create_and_use_a_Live_CD[How to create and use a Live CD].
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[[advantages-and-limitations]]
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Advantages and Limitations
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Benefits:
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* You can demonstrate features or try out a release, including testing
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hardware functionality, before hard disk/SSD installation.
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* Live USB/CD/DVD installation is faster than regular installation. Live
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USB/SD installation typically takes only a few minutes and can be
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configured with persistent storage.
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* You can use Live CD technology for backup and recovery of your
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installed hard drive.
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Limitations:
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* It is not possible to choose packages during installation. Live images
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typically have fewer packages than a regular installation image.
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* It is not possible to do an upgrade via the Anaconda installer. If you
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have a separate /home partition, you can just not format it during the
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installation and thus preserve your settings and /home content.
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* It is not possible to choose a non-default filesystem.
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* Once you shutdown a computer running from a Live CD, you will lose any
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settings or packages installed, but Live USB/SD installations may be
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configured with persistent storage.
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[[fedora-live-image-features]]
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Fedora Live image features
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Current features:
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1. A booted Live CD uses a temporary, in-memory, read-write rootfs, so
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it's possible to install software for use while the Live CD is running.
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2. Data persistence options available on Live USB/SD installations.
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3. Install to hard disks or USB/SD drives.
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4. Uses SELinux in enforcing mode and other security features by
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default.
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5. Includes best of breed software on the media.
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6. Stay as close to a normal desktop install with regard to features,
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or try specialized http://spins.fedoraproject.org/[Spins].
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7. Ability to create normal CD-ROM and CD-R media (less than 700 MB) or
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DVD images.
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8. Make it easy to do a derived Live CD with your own repositories,
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packages, and artwork.
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9. API used by LTSP, appliance creator and others.
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[[contributors]]
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Contributors
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* DavidZeuthen - Primary developer and maintainer of
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http://hal.freedesktop.org[HAL] and OLPC contributor.
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* JeremyKatz - Fedora Ninja. Adds backend for installing from a live
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image into link:Anaconda[ Anaconda].
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* DouglasMcClendon - LiveOS device mapper trickster.
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[[communicate]]
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Communicate
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Fedora Live image users and developers can participate and contribute in
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the discussions happening in the Fedora list.
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(http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list[predecessor
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list archives])
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[[finding-the-code]]
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Finding the Code
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The source code for the Live CD tools is maintained in git. The
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repository is at https://github.com/rhinstaller/livecd-tools/ . You can
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install it easily by installing the 'livecd-tools' package.
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Kickstart files are in the spin-kickstarts.noarch package.
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[[hard-drive-installation]]
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Hard Drive Installation
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The ability to install to a hard drive is available releases since
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Fedora 7. After the live media boots, click on the install icon on your
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desktop to start the installation. Installation from live image requires
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that GRUB and the /boot directory be installed onto a drive with an
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MSDOS partition label, or that the current machine supports EFI booting.
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If a pc-clone machine has only GPT hard drives, then you may need to use
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something such as a USB2.0 flash memory device (with an MSDOS partition
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label) as an intermediate destination.
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In Fedora 15, instead of clicking the desktop icon, choose
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Applications->System Tools->Install to Hard Drive from the menu along
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the top of the screen.
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[[references]]
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References
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* https://web.archive.org/web/20080611062804/http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-fedora-livecd/index.html[Mayank
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Sharma "IBM Developer Works: Build a Fedora Live CD" (archive.org
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version from June 2008)]
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* link:LiveOS_image[LiveOS image]
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Category:LiveMedia
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'''
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