There should be no reason why you cannot do a straight, encrypted install to a USB; with the caveat explained below. CD media is typically mounted as read-only so all you can do there is burn your iso to the CD/DVD and boot into the OS. No persistence is available.
You can also run Fedora from a USB with persistence, but you will not be able to have it encrypted. Live media is adaptive to the hardware environment and installed media is 'set' based upon the hardware present at install time. So, if you installed it with encryption to a USB, then you would/should only run it on machines that have *exteremely* similar hardware. That is the advantage of Live media -- universality. In this, as in all things, you cannot 'have your cake and eat it too' :) Having a Live USB with persistence is probably going to be your best bet if you want to use it on several different platforms -- but it won't be encrypted. That said, with persistence, you could always install TrueCrypt or some other application with which to create some encrypted space on the USB. A main benefit of this method is that you don't have to do all of the research into how to mount LUKS partitions manually. :) One more thing to keep in mind is that you should use the 64Bit (x86_64) version of the ISO to ensure compatibility with UEFI systems; so as to boot into UEFI mode on those computers without issues. Burn the media to the USB using the Fedora-livecd tool for best results. You can get that tool from: https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/ You may also find the following links useful: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/20/html/Burning_ISO_images_to_disc/ -- Warm Regards, Roger Baran, Owner Rapid Recovery IT Services San Antonio, TX On Thu, 2014-10-02 at 12:47 -0700, ToddAndMargo wrote: > Thank you! > > Would you do a direct install or a Live USB? > > Can you even do a LUKS live CD? > > > > On 10/02/2014 08:42 AM, Roger Baran wrote: > > Yes. Before you start, know how to mount and open your LUKS volume group > > from a command prompt. Also, make sure you understand how to use parted, > > blkid, df, chroot, grub config and make crypttab entries. All of these > > will prove useful if you should run into any issues. > > > > My .02 > > > > Roger > > > > Sent from my mobile phone > > > > On Oct 1, 2014 4:52 PM, "ToddAndMargo" <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > I am going to propose I put together either a Live USB > > or a whole distro installed to a USB. All depends > > on which one will allow me to do a full LUKS encryption. > > > > Any words of wisdom? > > > > Many thanks, > > -T > > > > -- > > livecd mailing list > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > https://admin.fedoraproject.__org/mailman/listinfo/livecd > > <https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd> > > > > > > > > -- > > livecd mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd > > > >
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