Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> 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.)
I tried following my own suggestion - transferring CentOS netinstall
to a USB stick with liveusb-creator (on a Fedora-14 laptop).
But to my surprise this failed with the error message
ISO MD5 checksum verification failed
However, md5sum seemed to find the ISO OK:
=========================================
[tim at blanche Documents]$ md5sum -c md5sum.txt.asc
...
CentOS-5.5-x86_64-netinstall.iso: OK
=========================================
sha1sum also finds it OK.
I tried downloading the ISO again, but the outcome was the same.
The ISO is very short - just 10MB.
But it looks OK when I loop-mount it.
I wonder if anyone can cast light on this?
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