On Tuesday, January 10, 2012 17:53 [UTC -5], Darr247 spake thusly: > I did not see that synopsis in your original post (and I'm not sure I > could figure out what commands you used by that). > The only 2 replies to this thread I saw in digest 84 issue 9 were to > John Doe. > > Anyway, this is what I have in my notes, though I see you've marked > this as solved... > > mostly assuming sdb as the USB device. > > From blank USB stick to bootable install: > > yum install livecd-tools syslinux > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1000 > parted /dev/sdb mklabel msdos > parted /dev/sdb mkpartfs p ext2 0% 100% > tune2fs -m0 /dev/sdb1 Oh, and sometimes the tune2fs command isn't needed. If I recall, it's needed only if the stick has never been formatted. > parted /dev/sdb toggle 1 boot > umount /dev/sdb1 > livecd-iso-to-disk <path to>/DVD.iso /dev/sdb1 > > mkdir /mnt/iso > mount -o loop <path to>/DVD.iso /mnt/iso > mkdir media<usb stick>/images > cp /mnt/iso/images/install.img media<usb stick>images > cp <path to>/DVD.iso /media/<usb stick>/ > > TEST: > qemu -m 512 /dev/sdb > > > I guess I should add > yum install qemu > to my notes, as I don't think that's installed by default. > > But using livecd-iso-to-disk makes it NOT ask for the image file > location during the install. Try it. > > Personally, I think they should've named it bootable-iso-tools, but > everyone's probably used to the livecd-tools name by now.