Timothy Murphy wrote: > 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). > > -------------------------------- > [tim at blanche ~]$ cd Downloads/ > [tim at blanche Downloads]$ ls -ls diskboot.img > 12288 -rw-rw-r--. 1 tim tim 12582912 Apr 9 01:43 diskboot.img > [tim at blanche Downloads]$ ls -ls diskboot.img > 12288 -rw-rw-r--. 1 tim tim 12582912 Apr 9 01:43 diskboot.img > [tim at blanche Downloads]$ sudo dd if=diskboot.img of=/dev/sdb > 24576+0 records in > 24576+0 records out > 12582912 bytes (13 MB) copied, 4.0099 s, 3.1 MB/s > -------------------------------- I just tried boot.iso again (using the file from <http://mirror.highspeedweb.net/CentOS/5.5/os/i386/images/>: ----------------------------------- Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 2048 3908351 1953152 83 Linux [tim at blanche Downloads]$ sudo livecd-iso-to-disk boot.iso /dev/sdb1 Verifying image... The media check is complete, the result is: NA. No checksum information available, unable to verify media. Are you SURE you want to continue? Press Enter to continue or ctrl-c to abort /home/tim/Downloads/boot.iso uses initrd.img w/o install.img Copying DVD image to USB stick Updating boot config file Installing boot loader USB stick set up as live image! ----------------------------------- However, the HP microserver did not boot with this USB stick - or rather, it booted but only showed "-" on the screen. -- 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