Lamar Owen wrote: >> > USB disks _can_ have partitions (obviously, since you can stick about >> > any drive into a usb adapter), > >> The instructions in <http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en- >> US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Installation_Guide/ >> certainly advise making a partition /dev/sdb1 >> with partition type b and running mkdosfs on it. > > Have you successfully booted with this USB stick before? Some USB sticks > aren't bootable. Several times, including now after following the instructions in <http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en- US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Installation_Guide/ch02s04.html>. Previously it had the CentOS Live CD on it, which ran perfectly. (That was how I installed CentOS on my new HP Microserver, after it was pointed out to me that you had to press SPACE during the boot to bring up a choice including Network Install.) -- 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