Here we describe the setup of a 16 GB USB drive that can be used to boot Fedora 16.

The USB drive contains three partitions, a boot partition (~500 MB), the main Fedora 16 partition (~ 15 GB), and a FAT32 partition (~ 1 GB) for documents that is accessable without booting Fedora.

A reason complete installation of Fedora running Gnome 3 is included. A user name, 'guest' should be create and setup to automatically boot into their Gnome session at boot time. Root password should be set to '12345'. The following non-standard software is include.

• IDL - Complete IDL version 8.1, license should be from 1700@localhost. SSH tunneling would be necessary to access a license server. The Cplot Analysis program can be run without the need for an IDL license.
• ADPAA - ADPAA software package should be install via svn.
• NCPLOT - Has been install by compling the source code downloaded from http://www.eol.ucar.edu/data/software/downloadcenter

You may have to update your computers BIOS in order for your computer to boot from a USB drive.

First thing is to make room on your USB drive for the Fedora files.

Using Insyde H2O Setup Utility 3.5: - Boot your computer with the Linux rescue disk, and move to GParted in the upper left corner. - Select the memory stick you want to partition. Ex: /dev/sdb. DO NOT partition the files onto your computer hard drive (labled normal). - Make the first partition fat32, and create as: primary partition. The partition size is your choice (10 GB recommended). - Make a second partition