Mark Pryor wrote:
I'm trying to install CentOS-5.5 on my new HP
micro-server,
which has no CD drive.
If all you want to do is kick-off an install via USB stick, you want
http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5.5/os/x86_64/images/diskboot.img
and use syslinux/memdisk to boot it on a vfat partition
------------- syslinux.cfg ------------ label c564 kernel memdisk append initrd=/diskboot.img --------- snip --------
you can dd the whole IMG to your stick, but its cleaner to collect such images and reference them in syslinux.cfg.
To setup your stick to bootZZ #syslinux -s /dev/sda (unmounted USB disk)
Thanks for the suggestion.
But would that be simpler than transferring netinstall.iso to a USB stick? (I've always found the syslinux documentation bizarre, with its frequent references to floppies.)