I would like to take a USB pen drive and make it CentOS 4.2 install cdrom 1. I have found the boot image for USB drives or floppies but I want to make my pen drive Install CD 1. I have looked around and the closest thing I have found is a how to for Debian but I can't seem to figure out how to adapt it to what I want to do. Any help or links would be much appreciated.
Thanks Chris
Chris Hammond spake the following on 2/6/2006 9:23 AM:
I would like to take a USB pen drive and make it CentOS 4.2 install cdrom 1. I have found the boot image for USB drives or floppies but I want to make my pen drive Install CD 1. I have looked around and the closest thing I have found is a how to for Debian but I can't seem to figure out how to adapt it to what I want to do. Any help or links would be much appreciated.
Thanks Chris
You might want to use the server cd as the base. Should be do-able. Add a second partition with the files from CD and do a hard drive install, using the drive that the usb drive detects as.
Thanks for the reply. I've managed to do that. I would like to completely emulate the CD from the pen drive. I am still trying to figure out how it is done by the CD. I look at the CD and I don't see the boot files and such. Not sure what I am missing. :|
Thanks Chris
ssilva@sgvwater.com 02/06/06 6:51 pm >>>
Chris Hammond spake the following on 2/6/2006 9:23 AM:
I would like to take a USB pen drive and make it CentOS 4.2 install cdrom 1. I have found the boot image for USB drives or floppies but I want to make my pen drive Install CD 1. I have looked around and the closest thing I have found is a how to for Debian but I can't seem to figure out how to adapt it to what I want to do. Any help or links would be much appreciated.
Thanks Chris
You might want to use the server cd as the base. Should be do- able. Add a second partition with the files from CD and do a hard drive install, using the drive that the usb drive detects as.
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Chris Hammond wrote:
Thanks for the reply. I've managed to do that. I would like to completely emulate the CD from the pen drive. I am still trying to figure out how it is done by the CD. I look at the CD and I don't see the boot files and such. Not sure what I am missing. :|
Thanks Chris
A friend of mine has managed to create a bootable "dvd" of CentOS 4.2 with one of those USB 5gig micro-drives. I'll see if I can corral him tomorrow (he's in Tokyo at the moment) and find out what he had to do to make things work. If you manage to figure things out before then, do post the recipe. I've got a number of idle 1gig and 2gig SD flash cards that would probably be better utilized as "rescue disks."
Cheers,
Will do.
Thanks Chris
chrism@imntv.com 02/06/06 8:46 pm >>>
Chris Hammond wrote:
Thanks for the reply. I've managed to do that. I would like to completely emulate the CD from the pen drive. I am still trying to figure out how it is done by the CD. I look at the CD and I don't see the boot files and such. Not sure what I am missing. :|
Thanks Chris
A friend of mine has managed to create a bootable "dvd" of CentOS 4.2 with one of those USB 5gig micro- drives. I'll see if I can corral him tomorrow (he's in Tokyo at the moment) and find out what he had to do to make things work. If you manage to figure things out before then, do post the recipe. I've got a number of idle 1gig and 2gig SD flash cards that would probably be better utilized as "rescue disks."
Cheers,
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