Bowie wrote: > m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> Bowie wrote: >>> m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >>>> Bowie wrote: >>>>> m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Ok, there's been discussion, including, I think, on the wiki web >>>>>> page, that syslinux is not correct. At any rate, after enough >>>>>> experimentation, I have a working install on a USB key. The >>>>>> procedure is: <snip> >>>>>> >>>>> Following these instructions, what iso do I use for the >>>>> livecd-iso-to-disk step? >>>>> >>>> I used the full, one DVD .iso. >>>> >>> That doesn't work for me. >>> >>> # livecd-iso-to-disk /home/bowieb/CentOS-5.5-i386-bin-DVD.iso >>> /dev/sda1 >>> Verifying image... >>> /home/bowieb/CentOS-5.5-i386-bin-DVD.iso: >>> 97c0b2ed5d08f0e24e1e516362059032 >>> Fragment sums: >>> 67686679ec95a9255099cbed11cc51d998abee91a1f91fc7a2361554e54e >>> Fragment count: 20 >>> Percent complete: 100.0% Fragment[20/20] -> OK >>> 100.0 >>> The supported flag value is 0 >>> The media check is complete, the result is: PASS. >>> >>> It is OK to install from this media. >>> Unable to fit live image + overlay on available space on USB stick >>> Size of live image: 3991 >>> Overlay size: >>> Available space: 13 >>> Cleaning up to exit... >>> >>> The DVD iso is 4GB and the DOS partition is only 10M (per your >>> instructions). Shouldn't the boot.iso or something else go here? >> >> Not sure what's going on there. liveCD-iso-to-disk dd's (or whatever) a >> bootable vfat (or is it fat?) filesystem, and *only* enough to boot the >> installer. The full DVD .iso goes in the other partition, which you've >> mkfs'd, just as a .iso. >> > 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: #!/bin/bash if [[ $# < 2 ]]; then echo "usage: $0 <devname> <path/to/install.iso>" echo " Example: $0 sdb /scratch/CentOS-5.4-bin-DVD.iso" echo " Note: you must install livecd-tools before running this." exit fi /sbin/sfdisk -n -uM /dev/$1 << EOF ,10,b,* ,,83 ; ; EOF mkfs -t vfat /dev/${1}1 mkfs /dev/${1}2 /usr/bin/livecd-iso-to-disk $2 /dev/${1}1 mount /dev/${1}2 /mnt cp $2 /mnt/ # end of script mark