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). -------------------------------- [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 -------------------------------- -- 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