Well, we wanted to put an install on a USB key. Neither I nor the other admin was amused by the singing and dancing that the wiki offers - and just *why* is it that syslinux is broken?
At any rate, I did some googling, and found http://www.pendrivelinux.com/, and I ran this installer.
Ok, it has some bugs: a) I had several .isos, and it *insisted* on grabbing the first one, alphabetically, no matter that I put in the full name. It also takes for-bloody-ever - 4.5 *hours* for the 4G DVD.
However, it finished, I stuck it into a laptop, told it to boot from the USB, and there was the begin install screen.
*shrug*
Looks good to me. I just do not understand why it's such a song and dance, rather than, say, syslinux /dev/sdb1 mount /dev/sdb1 /tmp/mnt mount -o loop CentOS....iso /mnt cp -pr /mnt/ /tmp/mnt
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