LiveCDs are a great way to try out (new) Linux distros on your system.

Unfortunately CDs get scratched pretty easily, and can turn into a coaster pretty soon.

With prices of USB pen drives at rock bottom, they’re probably the best way to try out LiveCDs. Generally its not that easy to make a bootable LiveCD using USB pen/flash drives. If you’re a Fedora lover then here’s a very easy way to create a bootable USB pen drive.

liveusb-creator is software which allows you to create bootable USB drives from Fedora iso. Its got some really features like

• Downloading of the latest Fedora release and previous ones
• Automatic detection of external drives
• Support for persistent layout – all your work done in the liveCD can be saved
• Auto calculation of checksums to ensure download is correct
• Works in Linux AND Windows!

Download liveusb-creator:

• For Windows
• For Linux:
  1. Source Code
  2. RPM File

Alternatively, you can install liveusb in Fedora by opening the terminal and typing yum -y install liveusb-creator.

Before installing, ensure that you run yum -y install syslinux PyQt4 usermode so that these packages are available.

liveusb-creator is authored by Luke Macken and Kushal Das

Thanks for the tip Ashish.

Update: Narayanan mentions UNetBootin which is a much better tool than liveusb-creator but doesn’t have the option to create a Persisten overlay like liveusb-creator does.