m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Boweie wrote:
m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Bowie wrote:
m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Ok, there's been discussion, including, I think, on the wiki web page, that syslinux is not correct. At any rate, after enough experimentation, I have a working install on a USB key. The procedure is:
Using fdisk, partition your key: one partition, VFAT (type b, and toggle the bootable flag), about 9M or 10M, and a second partition big enough to hold a DVD. That should be type 83 (Linux native).
mkfs -t vfat <the DOS partition) mkfs <the Linux partition
liveCD-iso-to-disk <.iso, w/ full path> /dev/<USB DOS partition> mount <USB Linux partition> /mnt cp <CentOS.iso> /mnt/
You're done. You do have to tell it "install from hard disk", and then point it to the Linux partition.
I just did this and tested it (or at least as far as the "searching for existing CentOS installations).
Following these instructions, what iso do I use for the livecd-iso-to-disk step?
I used the full, one DVD .iso.
That doesn't work for me.
# livecd-iso-to-disk /home/bowieb/CentOS-5.5-i386-bin-DVD.iso/dev/sda1 Verifying image... /home/bowieb/CentOS-5.5-i386-bin-DVD.iso: 97c0b2ed5d08f0e24e1e516362059032 Fragment sums: 67686679ec95a9255099cbed11cc51d998abee91a1f91fc7a2361554e54e Fragment count: 20 Percent complete: 100.0% Fragment[20/20] -> OK 100.0 The supported flag value is 0 The media check is complete, the result is: PASS.
It is OK to install from this media. Unable to fit live image + overlay on available space on USB stick Size of live image: 3991 Overlay size: Available space: 13 Cleaning up to exit...The DVD iso is 4GB and the DOS partition is only 10M (per your instructions). Shouldn't the boot.iso or something else go here?
Not sure what's going on there. liveCD-iso-to-disk dd's (or whatever) a bootable vfat (or is it fat?) filesystem, and *only* enough to boot the installer. The full DVD .iso goes in the other partition, which you've mkfs'd, just as a .iso.
Maybe I'm using the wrong script. I have livecd-iso-to-disk from the livecd-tools-014-8 package. Is liveCD-iso-to-disk a different script?