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
mark
m.roth@5-cent.us wrote on 04/23/2010 03:49 PM:
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?
Sorry you were unamused. Song and dance has never been my forte. One characteristic of *nix is that there are generally many ways to accomplish a job. Added your recommendation under Alternatives on
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
You are also free to contribute your article to the Wiki.
http://wiki.centos.org/HowToContribute
Phil
m.roth@5-cent.us wrote on 04/23/2010 03:49 PM:
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?
Sorry you were unamused. Song and dance has never been my forte. One characteristic of *nix is that there are generally many ways to accomplish a job. Added your recommendation under Alternatives on
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
You are also free to contribute your article to the Wiki.
Wasn't really an article, just an FYI. I'd still like to know why syslinux is broken....
mark
From: "m.roth@5-cent.us" m.roth@5-cent.us
I'd still like to know why syslinux is broken....
It was a version problem (default packaged syslinux was too old)... Might be this, but not sure:
"Changes in 3.72 : ... ISOLINUX: support generating images which can be either a CD-ROM or a hard disk (USB disk, etc.) See doc/isolinux.txt for more information"
JD
*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
mark
The last time I installed from a USB key all I did was:-
wget http://mirrors.dedipower.com/centos/5.4/os/i386/images/diskboot.img dd if=/path/to/diskboot.img of=/path/to/usb.key
I even was able to "muck around" to create my own kickstart file.
john maclean wrote on 04/24/2010 04:27 AM: ...
The last time I installed from a USB key all I did was:-
wget http://mirrors.dedipower.com/centos/5.4/os/i386/images/diskboot.img dd if=/path/to/diskboot.img of=/path/to/usb.key
That only gets you a bootable USB key, but without the packages. May be all you want, but not really all the article, or the alternatives, cover.
Phil
From: "m.roth@5-cent.us" m.roth@5-cent.us
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
If that's all it takes, you should replace the wiki content... And what does penlinux add that made you use it instead of your solution above?
JD
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