[CentOS] Building an install disk on a USB key, solved

m.roth at 5-cent.us m.roth at 5-cent.us
Fri May 21 17:29:17 UTC 2010


Bowie wrote:
> m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>> Bowie wrote:
>>> m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>>>> Bowie wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> That doesn't work for me.
<snip>
>>> Maybe I'm using the wrong script.  I have livecd-iso-to-disk from the
>>> livecd-tools-014-8 package.  Is liveCD-iso-to-disk a different script?
>>
>> Odd. I don't understand that... you *did* make the filesystem type b,
>> right, and bootable with fdisk? And then format it vfat?
>>
>> Btw, dunno if you missed it, but here's a full script to do this:
<snip>
> I used your script (after removing the '-n' from sfdisk) and got the

Thank you! <shakes head at self> I just edited my little script to get rid
of it.

> same results.  Unless you have a better idea, I think I'm going to try
> putting the boot.iso on the first partition and see what happens.
> Unfortunately, I won't be able to test until tonight since I don't have
> a system here that will boot from a flash drive.

Ok. Sorry, no clues as to why it's not working for you.

     mark




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