[CentOS] idea: "hybrid" iso images?

[Joseph Spenner]

>


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 > From: Nux! <nux at li.nux.ro>
> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> 
> Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 11:26 AM
>Subject: Re: [CentOS] idea:  "hybrid" iso images?
 
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>On 15.04.2013 19:07, Joseph Spenner wrote:
>> In order to create a bootable CentOS installation USB thumb drive,
>> there are several steps one must follow.  The process often involves
>> using a Windows box, which can be kinda annoying.
>> 
>> The Linux Mint distro has what they call a "Hybrid" iso image.
>>  (see:   http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/744 )
>> 
>> This image can be written to a thumb drive and used for installation
>> simply by performing:
>> 
>> # dd /path/to/image.iso of=/dev/sdb
>>   (where /dev/sdb is the thumb drive device).
>> 
>> This thumb drive can now be booted and used for installation.
>> The same image.iso file can be written to CD/DVD to create the
>> installation media as well.
>> 
>> 
>> Is this a complicated ISO build process?  I'm frequently installing
>> to systems without CD/DVD drives, so this would come in handy.

> Centos ISOs have been "hybrid" for a while now AFAIK. Have you tried 
> them and did not work?

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Nux:
 
 I just tried again, using an 8G thumb drive, with the 
CentOS-6.4-x86_64-minimal.iso image on my 64bit Dell laptop, and got a 
quick error:
   "no boot sector found on USB device"
  It then proceeded to boot the next device in the boot order list.
  I also tried it on 2 other Dell servers, and neither would boot the thumb drive.

I then dd'd the latest Linux Mint iso to the same thumb drive, and it worked fine on my laptop.
So, perhaps the CentOS images can not (yet) be used this way.
Have you tried?

Thanks for the reply!

Regards,
Joseph Spenner

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