similar to: centos 5.2 booting thumbdrive

Is there anything new on installing centos 5.1 on a 4G thumbdrive? What about the number of writes to the flash? Is that still a problem? Jerry

Hi all, I am trying to find information on taking a DVD of centos 5.2 x86_64 and putting it AND my kickstart file on a USB8G thumbdrive. Note - I am not INSTALLING linux on the USB disk just trying to make installation media for it. I am not taking just the bootdisk.img file to make the USB bootable but the entire DVD content on the USB and my kickstart files. I'd like to just be able to

Hi all Is there a procedure to use an 8GIG thumbdrive to copy the centos 5.2 dvd contents to the thumbdrive then run isolinux (or something like it) and be able to use the thumbdrive as the install media? Seems like it should work, however my machine only has syslinux not isolinux. yum provides isolinux does not return anything. Anyway I was trying to get to a point where I can just stick a

I have a bootable usb thumbdrive now... three partions, msdos for syslinux booting, ext3 and swap. How can I grab my QEMU installed centos 4 image and put it on the ext3 /dev/sdc2 partition on my thumbdrive? THanks, Jerry

Hi, What modules are needed in my mkinird command with --preload to boot from usb thumbdrive? THanks, Jerry

I believe the same issue I see with running "linux rescue" on a USB drive is the same issue I am having why the thumb drive wont boot. When installing I have to use expert mode I just cant install directly as the USB disk is not seen. What happens extra in expert mode? some delay somewhere??? When doing a linux rescue it looks for existing installations and finds none. This is

Hi I just grabbed an 8gig thumb drive, took disk 1 centos 4 i386, copied the isolinux directory files to my thumbdrive, then ran syslinux -sf /dev/sdc1 on the device plugged it into my laptop and it does not boot. Is there a step(s) I am missing to get a bootable thumbdrive with centos? Thanks, Jerry

On 12/13/2015 05:00 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > On Sun, 13 Dec 2015 16:48:25 -0500 ken wrote: > >> So far I've created on this new laptop a big, empty partition; in >> the BIOS enabled legacy booting and disabled UEFI; also in BIOS >> under Legacy Boot Order set "USB diskette on key/USB hard disk" on >> second priority. I've tried to boot from a usb

On 12/13/2015 05:00 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > On Sun, 13 Dec 2015 16:48:25 -0500 ken wrote: > >> So far I've created on this new laptop a big, empty partition; in >> the BIOS enabled legacy booting and disabled UEFI; also in BIOS >> under Legacy Boot Order set "USB diskette on key/USB hard disk" on >> second priority. I've tried to boot from a usb

The big picture is I'm wanting to boot centos 7 and install kvm. So far I've created on this new laptop a big, empty partition; in the BIOS enabled legacy booting and disabled UEFI; also in BIOS under Legacy Boot Order set "USB diskette on key/USB hard disk" on second priority. I've tried to boot from a usb thumbdrive three times and it failed all three times. I'm

The big picture is I'm wanting to boot centos 7 and install kvm. So far I've created on this new laptop a big, empty partition; in the BIOS enabled legacy booting and disabled UEFI; also in BIOS under Legacy Boot Order set "USB diskette on key/USB hard disk" on second priority. I've tried to boot from a usb thumbdrive three times and it failed all three times. I'm

Hi all, I am using centos 5.2 x86_64 on a box. and getting this error: wish -f pcalert.tcl Error in startup script: unknown color name "black" (processing "-background" option) invoked from within "canvas .c -height $canvas_height -width $screen_width -background black -highlightthickness 0 " invoked from within "set c [canvas .c -height

I will really hate myself if this has already been solved, i searched the archives but didn't really find anything pertaining to it. I have a 2.88mb dos boot floppy image, with ghost.exe, dos nic drivers, and dos system files. It works fine when burnt to a cd. As for the thumbdrive when trying to configure this hpghost.ima file to run from my syslinux.cfg menu, it works and boots up fine but

I've been poking at this for quite a while, and have never been able to get it to work. I've found a couple links with some partial truths: ? http://syslint.com/syslint/how-to-make-a-usb-boot-disk-for-centosrhel-from-iso-file/ ? http://brakkee.org/site/2013/05/09/creating-a-usb-install-for-centos-6-4/ The first one talks about converting a standard iso to a 'hybrid' image, using:?

On Sun, 13 Dec 2015 16:48:25 -0500 ken wrote: > So far I've created on this new laptop a big, empty partition; in the > BIOS enabled legacy booting and disabled UEFI; also in BIOS under Legacy > Boot Order set "USB diskette on key/USB hard disk" on second priority. > I've tried to boot from a usb thumbdrive three times and it failed all > three times. I'm

On Sun, 13 Dec 2015 16:48:25 -0500 ken wrote: > So far I've created on this new laptop a big, empty partition; in the > BIOS enabled legacy booting and disabled UEFI; also in BIOS under Legacy > Boot Order set "USB diskette on key/USB hard disk" on second priority. > I've tried to boot from a usb thumbdrive three times and it failed all > three times. I'm

I am trying to use nash on centos 5.2 to demonstrate the problem I did: cd /sbin ln -sf /sbin/nash sleep export PATH=/sbin:$PATH sleep 5 and I get an error. Red Hat nash version 5.1.19.6 starting nash cannot open 5: no such file or directory Why doesnt that work? Thanks, Jerry

Hi All, I am attempting to create a custom USB drive for kickstart install. I found this: 1. get the ISO file of CentOS 7 2. mount -o loop CentOS-7.0*.iso /mnt/ 3. mkdir -p /CentOS-7-ISO-respin/{CentOS-7-unpacked,CentOS-7-iso} 4. rsync -avz /mnt/ /CentOS-7-ISO-respin/RHEL-7-unpacked 5. put your kickstart file into

I made a little file with a From:, To: and body. I execute the command cat file.txt | sendmail -t -O MinQueueAge=1m thinking that the message would try every minute to send instead of the default 30m. (if the initial attempt failed of course). This doesnt seem to have any effect? In the event I have an important email and I want it try perhaps every minute (1minute) to send the email how do I

Hi Is there a way to attach Usb thumbdrive serial number to mounted drive? I see that there is something in the Winecfg. but it does not seem to either save the serial when I put it. Maybe it is unfuncional. The reason I am looking for a solution for this is that I have Windows app that checks the usb drives real serial number. thanks