On 4/8/11 7:12 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
I did try the dd method again, but it didn't work for me.
I still don't understand what is going wrong for you. I just went through these motions: download the bootdisk.img file from: http://mirror.highspeedweb.net/CentOS/5.5/os/i386/images/ then dd if=bootdisk.img of=/dev/sdb to a 64M USB key. (the only quirk here was that my ubuntu laptop automounted the usb key when I inserted it so I had to 'umount /dev/sdb' first) and then 'reboot'
Thanks, it did work this time when I got the file from the above site (given that it is diskboot.img not bootdisk.img). The only difference I can see is that previously I took the file from the CentOS 64-bit DVD ISO (loop-mounted).
It really should have been that simple in the first place - you could have installed from the first CD set you downloaded in a few minutes.