On 4/8/11 7:12 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: > >>> 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' > > Thanks, it did work this time when I got the file from the above site > (given that it is diskboot.img not bootdisk.img). > The only difference I can see is that previously I took the file > from the CentOS 64-bit DVD ISO (loop-mounted). It really should have been that simple in the first place - you could have installed from the first CD set you downloaded in a few minutes. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com