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The Fedora release includes several live ISO images in addition to the traditional installation images. These ISO images are bootable, and you can burn them to media and use them to try out Fedora. They also include a feature that allows you to install the live image content to your hard drive for persistence and higher performance.
There are three live images available for Fedora 7.
Fedora 7 i386 Desktop CD. This is a CD sized image for i386 machines. It includes the GNOME desktop environment, integrates all supported Fedora locales, and features a basic set of the productivity applications available in Fedora.
Fedora 7 x86_64 Desktop DVD. This is a DVD sized image for x86_64 machines. The feature set is the same as in the i386 Desktop CD and includes multilib packages.
Fedora 7 i386 KDE Desktop CD. This is a CD sized image for i386 machines. It includes the KDE Desktop environment and a large set of KDE applications. This image only has full support for the English language. The GNOME based Live images do not include the OpenOffice.org office suite to save space. Instead they include Abiword and support for more locales. The KDE Live CD uses parts of koffice instead. The Fedora Live images do not support
i586class machines. To install Fedora on ani586, you must use the classic installation method.
The Live images should boot on any machine that supports booting
from CD-ROM. Upon booting the CD, you can log in and use the
desktop environment as the fedora user. Leave the password
prompt blank to login. The Live images do not automatically login
so users can select a preferred language. After logging in, if
you wish to install the contents of the live image to your hard
drive, click on the Install to Hard Drive
icon on the desktop.
Another way to use these Live images is to put them on a USB
stick. To do this, install the livecd-tools package
from the development repository. Then, run the
livecd-iso-to-stick script:
/usr/bin/livecd-iso-to-stick /path/to/live.iso /dev/sdb1
Replace /dev/sdb1 with the partition where
you want to put the image.
This is not a destructive process; any data you currently have on your USB stick is preserved.