Quoting Bill-Schoolcraft <bill at wiliweld.com>: > Hello Family, > > I've just purchased a 1-gig Sandisk "Cruzer" pendrive for I need to have > the full "first" iso image to reside on the drive. > > I need to have it boot as would a USB CDROM so I can initiate an NFS > install at the (install) command prompt with: > > linux text askmethod > > I received this USB Flash Drive with a fat32 file system on in and was > thinking of just taking my first CD of CentOS and doing: > > dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/sda > > I was thinking the above syntax from the days of using "dd" for floppy > boot images to 1.44mb floppy disks. > > Any ideas on this? It might or might not work. Depending on how smart/dumb your BIOS is and/or how you configured it. Booting off USB stick kind of thing is fairly non-standardized, and every single BIOS supports different ways of organizing the thing. What should work is to dd the images/diskboot.img onto your pen drive.