Hi all,
Can anyone please point me to a link with instructions on how to install CentOS 5 onto a USB flash drive, preferably from Windows?
I would like to create a full running CentOS installation (with minimal packages obviously) that runs off a USB flash drive, and I don't have a Linux machine to use for this installation right now.
The best I could find is this one: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/usb-centos-5-live-install-via-windows/ but it seems this is just creating a Live CD on a USB drive, not plain CentOS. i.e. I want to install CentOS, setup users, install selected packages, etc.
From: Rudi Ahlers Rudi@SoftDux.com
Can anyone please point me to a link with instructions on how to install CentOS 5 onto a USB flash drive, preferably from Windows? I would like to create a full running CentOS installation (with minimal packages obviously) that runs off a USB flash drive, and I don't have a Linux machine to use for this installation right now.
Why not just boot from the CentOS DVD and do a normal install on the USB drive? But watch out not to "burn out" you USB drive (limited number of writes).
JD
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 3:50 PM, John Doe jdmls@yahoo.com wrote:
From: Rudi Ahlers Rudi@SoftDux.com
Can anyone please point me to a link with instructions on how to install CentOS 5 onto a USB flash drive, preferably from Windows? I would like to create a full running CentOS installation (with minimal packages obviously) that runs off a USB flash drive, and I don't have a Linux machine to use for this installation right now.
Why not just boot from the CentOS DVD and do a normal install on the USB drive? But watch out not to "burn out" you USB drive (limited number of writes).
JD
I don't have a DVD, nor any blank DVD's to write it to, but only an ISO :) But it's fine, I've setup a Linux server with PXE and will (when i have time again) do the install over the network.
On Tue, 14 Dec 2010, John Doe wrote:
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: John Doe jdmls@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] how to install CentOS onto a USB flash drive from Windows?
From: Rudi Ahlers Rudi@SoftDux.com
Can anyone please point me to a link with instructions on how to install CentOS 5 onto a USB flash drive, preferably from Windows? I would like to create a full running CentOS installation (with minimal packages obviously) that runs off a USB flash drive, and I don't have a Linux machine to use for this installation right now.
Why not just boot from the CentOS DVD and do a normal install on the USB drive? But watch out not to "burn out" you USB drive (limited number of writes).
Not tried that yet, but when using a USB drive for doing a kickstart installation, the USB drive is recognised by anaconda as sda1, and offered as an installation option in the partitioner dialogue.
Kind Regards,
Keith Roberts
From: Keith Roberts keith@karsites.net
Not tried that yet, but when using a USB drive for doing a kickstart installation, the USB drive is recognised by anaconda as sda1, and offered as an installation option in the partitioner dialogue.
ignoredisk --drives=sda bootloader --driveorder=sdb,sda --location=mbr
JD
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