[CentOS] Building an install disk on a USB key manually or using unetbootin

[Whit Blauvelt]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 05:52:50PM -0500, David wrote:
> That is discouraging news.

On the other hand, I've done USB installs of other distros that worked just
fine. But those weren't set up with unetbootin. You could probably get away
with, say, putting System Rescue Disk on a USB key, using that to boot and
to put a partition on your hard drive, downloading a CentOS iso to the
partition, mounting it as a loopback, chrooting into it, and seeing where
you could go from there. Totally untested for CentOS, but something like
that should work.

Or if you have a Windows box to set up from, I've found other recipes from
this site useful in the past:

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/usb-centos-5-live-install-via-windows/

Whit