[CentOS] CentOS 5 Live USB

Thu Jul 26 09:10:17 UTC 2007
Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com>

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Johnny Hughes wrote:

> Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> > Mark Rose wrote:
> >> I took a stab at making a bootable CentOS 5 Live USB pendrive and I
> >> ended up with a kernel panic.  I was able to do this with a live CD of
> >> CentOS 4, but it seems the same procedure does not work for the new
> >> version.
> >>
> >> Has anyone been able to accomplish this?  Any and all thoughts are
> >> apprecicated!
> > 
> > I'd love to hear what you did to get CentOS on the USB thumb drive so
> > that I can compare it to what I think we can accomplish with CentOS 5,
> > as we are currently working on getting USB thumb drive installs to *just
> > work* from Revisor.
> 
> You guys will probably want to wait for the next live CD ...  based on
> the FC7 Live CD project.
> 
> We hope to have that on in a couple months and we hope for it to be
> easily installable on a thumb drive and even installable via the Live CD.
> 
> You might find some pointers here if you can't wait, as it is what the
> Live CD is based on:
> 
> http://os.cqu.edu.au/adios/adk.html

It would be nice if the same project could deliver:

 - Live CD images
 - USB images
 - Harddisk images (for qemu/vmware or preinstalled harddisks)

from a single set of media + configuration files.

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