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Fedora Silverblue Live USB? (lemdro.id)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Is it not possible to run Fedora Silverblue in live boot like other distros? I wanted to test it on my laptop before installing. The laptop currently runs ZorinOS.

I downloaded the ISO from the Fedora website - here. When I try booting from the USB it only gives me the option for installing it.

Edit: I’m looking for a live+persistent mode. My wording wasn’t great.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You can absolutely install it on a USB drive.

But to do so, you need to boot up the installer and proceed with the installation process from your (other) USB drive. AFAIK there is no live+persistent mode on the official ISOs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My wording was not great. I was looking for the live+persistent mode.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Is there reason why it has to live+persistent? You can always use a VM to install it to your USB, so you won't need two drives. You can then boot from that USB on your real PC too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My laptop is not very powerful so using a VM isn’t a great idea. I wanted to use the USB in order to boot into Fedora Silverblue before installing it so I could play around and see how it feels.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You're only going to use the VM to install Silverblue to the USB. Once it's on the USB you can use boot it on your real PC to test it out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

You can use sshd/sshfs to transfer files from a vm to another system, or even another vm.

You can shrink the installations partition to 90-95% used space, unmount the target, use dd --> tar.xz/lz/gz then the reverse to a new slightly larger partition, check enlarge whatever, configure, even the UUID of the partition transfers, so even grub.cfg/limine.cfg/lilo/syslinux all work just install in MBR or efi and reboot.

@d3Xt3r @governorkeagan

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I installed Kinoite relatively recently and also noted that I could not run it live

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I recently installed Silverblue alongside Windows and ran into this as well. I haven’t found a way to run the actual OS off the USB stick.