[CentOS] Building an install disk on a USB key, solved (again)
Bowie Bailey
Bowie_Bailey at BUC.comMon May 24 15:01:05 UTC 2010
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I was able to successfully install from an 8GB USB flash drive (4GB is not quite big enough, even for i386) created with this procedure: Create a 10M DOS partition and make it active Create Linux partition using the rest of the drive mkfs -t vfat <the DOS partition> mkfs <the Linux partition> liveCD-iso-to-disk <boot.iso> /dev/<USB DOS partition> mount <USB Linux partition> /mnt rsync --progress <CentOS.iso> /mnt/ You can get the boot.iso by loop-mounting the CentOS iso and pulling it out of the /os/i386/images directory, or grab it from one of the mirrors (the mirror links on the CentOS site link directly to the install isos, so you'll have to browse up a few directories and then go back down to find the images directory). (I replaced the 'cp' command with 'rsync' here because I hate having a copy run for 10 minutes with no progress indication :) -- Bowie
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