Well, we wanted to put an install on a USB key. Neither I nor the other
admin was amused by the singing and dancing that the wiki offers - and
just *why* is it that syslinux is broken?
At any rate, I did some googling, and found
<http://www.pendrivelinux.com/>, and I ran this installer.
Ok, it has some bugs: a) I had several .isos, and it *insisted* on
grabbing the first one, alphabetically, no matter that I put in the full
name. It also takes for-bloody-ever - 4.5 *hours* for the 4G DVD.
However, it finished, I stuck it into a laptop, told it to boot from the
USB, and there was the begin install screen.
*shrug*
Looks good to me. I just do not understand why it's such a song and dance,
rather than, say,
syslinux /dev/sdb1
mount /dev/sdb1 /tmp/mnt
mount -o loop CentOS....iso /mnt
cp -pr /mnt/ /tmp/mnt
mark
m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote on 04/23/2010 03:49 PM:> Well, we wanted to put an install on a USB key. Neither I nor the other > admin was amused by the singing and dancing that the wiki offers - and > just *why* is it that syslinux is broken?Sorry you were unamused. Song and dance has never been my forte. One characteristic of *nix is that there are generally many ways to accomplish a job. Added your recommendation under Alternatives on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey You are also free to contribute your article to the Wiki. http://wiki.centos.org/HowToContribute Phil
> *shrug* > > Looks good to me. I just do not understand why it's such a song and dance, > rather than, say, > syslinux /dev/sdb1 > mount /dev/sdb1 /tmp/mnt > mount -o loop CentOS....iso /mnt > cp -pr /mnt/ /tmp/mnt > > ? ? ?mark >The last time I installed from a USB key all I did was:- wget http://mirrors.dedipower.com/centos/5.4/os/i386/images/diskboot.img dd if=/path/to/diskboot.img of=/path/to/usb.key I even was able to "muck around" to create my own kickstart file. -- John Maclean 07739 171 531 MSc (DIC) Enterprise Linux Systems Engineer
From: "m.roth at 5-cent.us" <m.roth at 5-cent.us>> I just do not understand why it's such a song and dance, > rather than, say, > syslinux /dev/sdb1 > mount /dev/sdb1 /tmp/mnt > mount -o loop CentOS....iso /mnt > cp -pr /mnt/ /tmp/mntIf that's all it takes, you should replace the wiki content... And what does penlinux add that made you use it instead of your solution above? JD