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I have an .iso image of the full fedora 16 install (Downloaded from http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-options#formats as "Fedora 16 DVD") and the question now is: How do I write it on an usb stick, so I can install it on my Mac book?

I tried using dd as the install guide said, and that gave me an usb stick which can boot from My Pc. But it can't boot from the mac (The Mac start menu don't show it as a boot option).

Edit: I downloaded a live install image, and did this (sdd is my usb 4GB thing)

/sbin/mkdosfs -F 32 -n usbdisk /dev/dev/sdd1

sudo livecd-iso-to-disk --format --reset-mbr --efi /tmp/download/Fedora-16-i686-Live-KDE.iso /dev/sdd1

And this produced an image which can boot on my pc but not on my mac. This seems to indicate that the --efi is not working, because if it really was efi it would not boot on a normal pc, would it?

I then tried this: (Difference beeing that I write the image directry to /dev/sdd instead of /dev/sdd1) but this still will not boot on the mac. (It newer shows up at the startup screen on the mac). 

sudo livecd-iso-to-disk --format --reset-mbr --efi /tmp/download/Fedora-

ps: My host linux is Fedora 13.

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Macs (or, rather, apple-branded PC/AT compatibles) are a tough piece of shit. They have a terribly buggy ACPI implementation which causes errors in the eventlog on XP, and hangs on Windows 2000 and some Linux flavours. – kinokijuf Jan 28 at 20:12
Did you ever get the solution to work? I am having the same trouble. – Eric B. Apr 24 at 19:55
Nope. I gave up. – MTilsted May 5 at 23:42
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use liveusb-creater it is a software for creating live usb, or see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB

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But the documentation say that this only work for the live image. The 3.5GB image I downloaded is the install image, not a live image. – MTilsted Dec 21 '11 at 20:46
Oh it seems there is some conflicting documentation. The documentation you linked say: "The livecd-iso-to-disk method also works with DVD install iso images, even though these are not Live images." so I will try use it and repport back :} – MTilsted Dec 21 '11 at 21:00
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