Neil Aggarwal wrote: > Hello: > > I followed the instructions here: > http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.2/Installation_Guide/ch02s04s01.html > to put isolinux on a usb drive. When I boot from the usb drive, > the installer comes up and I can do a network install. I have > to say that is very impressive! > > But, since I have a 4GB usb drive, I am thinking I can > load the rest of the installation onto the usb drive > so I do not have to use a network install. > > I searched the Internet but could not find any instructions > on doing that. > > Can someone point me in the right direction? > > Thanks, > Neil > > -- > Neil Aggarwal, (832)245-7314, www.JAMMConsulting.com > Eliminate junk email and reclaim your inbox. > Visit http://www.spammilter.com for details. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > I currently use a different method. 1) make the first partition active fdisk /dev/sd[c]1 then a, 1 and w to write and quit 2) format the usb stick with fat or ext3 3) if you chose (a) fat : you will need to make syslinux work on the stick syslinux /dev/sd[c]1 (b) ext3 : you will need to use extlinux work on the stick extlinux /dev/sd[c]1 4) I extract the isolinux folder from the dvd iso 5) rename all isolinux to (a) syslinux - (b) extlinux 6) copy the dvd/cd iso(s) to your stick 7) normally you should get the same boot loader as when you would pop in the cd/dvd, centos install will start loading necessary drivers and then you will have to chose hard disk install and point to the drive where your dvd/cd iso(s) are 8) anaconda will start and well the rest you know I have a 16gb stick with CentOS 4 32bit & 64bit and CentOS 5 32bit & 64bit to install my systems There is one problem, if you want to use kickstart, it will want the mounted iso files, have not yet figured a way to get around this or to get some command to mount the images somewhere Regards, Tosh. -- Toshaan <toshlinux at gmail.com> - http://www.toshaan.be