On 06/01/2015 08:37 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Jun 1, 2015, at 4:59 PM, g <geleem at bellsouth.net> wrote: >> all of which brings me back to my original question; >> >> how can i make usb stick bootable from linux? > > It depends on how you put content on the USB stick. Typically, I > just ‘dd’ the installation DVD to the USB device, that way there’s > no messing around. You can also follow the instructions here: > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey procedure described at pogostick.com is to copy a group of files contained in file 'usb140201.zip' to a usb stick, then from command line; X:syslinux.exe -ma X: which executes the "syslinux.exe" that was copied to the usb stick in above. X: = volume containing usb stick -ma: -m = install an mbr -a = mark partition as active oos 'syslinux.exe' command differs a bit from the linux 'syslinux'. from reading 'man syslinux', i do not believe that i could have used linux 'syslinux' as it would install wrong files to the usb stick. as stated in an earlier post, solution was to create a bootable cd of 'ntpassword' and booted it to remove all passwords. after doing that, i was able to execute 'syslinux.exe' on usb stick as admin. i now have 'ntpassword' on both cd and usb stick. having used 'ntpassword' on win95, win98, xp, and nt systems, i will say that that latest release is easy to use just as earlier version that i have on a cd of 'austrumi 0.9.2' is. in fact, it is almost the same. i will say that anyone who has to deal with oos should have a bootable of latest release of 'ntpassword'. > Of course, I have no idea how you’d do anything with an OS other > than Windows. do not feel bad, most oos users do not know how to do anything with windows, other than play games and music. ;-) thank you for you reply and the link. -- peace out. If Bill Gates got a dime for every time Windows crashes... ...oh, wait. He does. THAT explains it! in a world with out fences, who needs gates. CentOS GNU/Linux 6.6 tc,hago. g .