On 4/8/2011 7:58 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > >>> Yes, my memory isn't that great, but it is in the install guide: >>> http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Installation_Guide-en- > US/ch02s04.html#id3098219 > > I did try the dd method again, but it didn't work for me. I still don't understand what is going wrong for you. I just went through these motions: download the bootdisk.img file from: http://mirror.highspeedweb.net/CentOS/5.5/os/i386/images/ then dd if=bootdisk.img of=/dev/sdb to a 64M USB key. (the only quirk here was that my ubuntu laptop automounted the usb key when I inserted it so I had to 'umount /dev/sdb' first) and then 'reboot' It booted into the installer, I chose nfs, let dhcp set up the network and filled in the server and path info for the location of the CD iso (5.5) images, and anaconda started running. I went far enough to make sure it saw my hard drive layout and then rebooted since I didn't really want to re-install. What is different from the way you did it? If you mount the USB after dd'ing the contents to it, you should see a vfat filesystem with some files. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com