[CentOS] Installing CentOS via USB thumbdrive

Fri Nov 8 18:59:00 UTC 2013
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On 11/08/2013 10:04 AM, Joseph Spenner wrote:
> Has anyone successfully installed via USB?
> I remember reading some multi part instructions where the USB drive is formatted with some special tools, often involving Windows, and various files need to be copied to the USB drive.  But I was hoping we were passed that by now.
> But then again, Dell firmware updates still want me to make a DOS bootable floppy.  So, I'm usually not surprised when I hear something like this.   :)

I did an install from USB disk a while back. It mostly worked. The only 
thing I had issues with is that the USB disk occupied a slot and I had 
to tell grub which partition to boot from.