[CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

[Timothy Murphy]

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/>:
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   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!
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However, the HP microserver did not boot with this USB stick -
or rather, it booted but only showed "-" on the screen.


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