m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Bowie wrote: > >> m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> >>> Bowie wrote: >>> >>>> 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 > I used your script (after removing the '-n' from sfdisk) and got the 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. -- Bowie