How to create Live Fedora on USB in Opensuse?

Try to follow this one.

* Find you USB Drive.

# grep -Ff <(hwinfo --disk --short) <(hwinfo --usb --short)

Creating the partition

For me my USB was only design as Live Bootable Disk, in create the new partition I decide to delete current parting and create new one. * Selecting the Disk

# /sbin/fdisk /dev/sdb

* Atfer selected, issue m option to display the help

Command (m for help): m
Command action
   a   toggle a bootable flag
   b   edit bsd disklabel
   c   toggle the dos compatibility flag
   d   delete a partition
   l   list known partition types
   m   print this menu
   n   add a new partition
   o   create a new empty DOS partition table
   p   print the partition table
   q   quit without saving changes
   s   create a new empty Sun disklabel
   t   change a partition's system id
   u   change display/entry units
   v   verify the partition table
   w   write table to disk and exit
   x   extra functionality (experts only)

* Delete the partition:

Command (m for help): d
Selected partition 1

* Create Partition

Command (m for help): n Press n and hit enter
Command action
   e   extended
   p   primary partition (1-4)
p Press p and hit enter
Partition number (1-4, default 1): 
Using default value 1
First sector (2048-3948543, default 2048):  Just hit enter here
Using default value 2048
Last sector, +sectors or +size{K,M,G} (2048-3948543, default 3948543): Just hit enter here
Using default value 3948543

* Tag the Partition as bootable.

Command (m for help): a Press n and hit enter
Partition number (1-4): 1 As you create only partition press 1

* Verify the partition you create.

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sdb: 2021 MB, 2021654528 bytes
42 heads, 4 sectors/track, 23503 cylinders, total 3948544 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0001f52c

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *        2048     3948543     1973248   83  Linux

INFO: As you notice Boot colunm has start(*) * Finally you done creating partition, now write the partition in the disk.

Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered!

Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
Syncing disks.

Now, write the Live ISO to your USB

# dd if=/home/syntax3rror/Downloads/Fedora-17-i686-Live-KDE.iso of=/dev/sdb
1423360+0 records in
1423360+0 records out
728760320 bytes (729 MB) copied, 286.532 s, 2.5 MB/s

YEHEY, Your done, you can now able to boot Fedora17 live in your USB. just be sure to change the boot priority of your system bios.

IMPORTANT NOTE

* Besure the device NOT mounted. If ever mounted you can umount /dev/sdb * Besure to backups all you important data in you USB. * Besure to use /dev/sdb as device name and NOT /dev/sdb1

Happy Reading and Post if works for you