Keith Roberts wrote: > On Fri, 15 Jul 2011, yonatan pingle wrote: > > *snip* > >> Any pros vs cons on using a bootable USB thumb drive instead of CD/DVD ? >> >> this might be the better solution as the images just grow larger and >> larger each update. >> >> I find it much faster to install from USB. > > I think that's an option I'm going to have to look into. I > suppose you would mount the iso image, and copy the files > directly to the USB flash drive? There are apps/scripts that convert DVD/CD ISO file for use on USB thumb drive. There were even suggestions on one of centos mailing lists I think, and net is full of howto's. So no, it is not just copy, You need it to boot the installer. Ljubomir