Mark Pryor wrote: >> > I'm trying to install CentOS-5.5 on my new HP >> micro-server, >> > which has no CD drive. > If all you want to do is kick-off an install via USB stick, you want > > http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5.5/os/x86_64/images/diskboot.img > > and use syslinux/memdisk to boot it on a vfat partition > > ------------- syslinux.cfg ------------ > label c564 > kernel memdisk > append initrd=/diskboot.img > --------- snip -------- > > you can dd the whole IMG to your stick, but its cleaner to collect such > images and reference them in syslinux.cfg. > > To setup your stick to bootZZ > #syslinux -s /dev/sda (unmounted USB disk) Thanks for the suggestion. But would that be simpler than transferring netinstall.iso to a USB stick? (I've always found the syslinux documentation bizarre, with its frequent references to floppies.) -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland