similar to: Building an install disk on a USB key, solved

Has anyone successfully built a USB key for installing centos5.5 either manually or using a tool like unetbootin? I am trying to create one using the 64bit install DVD iso and so far the USB either won't boot (unetbootin) or the installation aborts after I select the iso location on the USB key (manual). Thanks, David

Ok, where/how do I submit this to the CentOS project? Here's a complete script - anyone, *please* feel free to test it, and let me know if I've missed anything. Thanks in advance. mark #!/bin/bash # ################################### # Author: mark roth # Date: 30 Apr. 2010 # Purpose: to create a working, bootable CentOS install on a USB key

I try two ways to use syslinux for USB key (2GB USB key), and one approach can boot from machine, another approach can not. Could you review the following steps and tell me why #2 can not boot? Thanks very much! approach #1 steps: mkfs.vfat -F 16 -n USB /dev/sdb -I (pay attention, it uses "-I" here) syslinux /dev/sdb (pay attention, it is "sdb", not "sdb1" here)

Hi, I have a 'little' issue with my bootable USB keys... The following used to work (isolinux 3.11-4): Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdg1 * 1 3 23126 6 FAT16 /dev/sdg2 4 1023 7873380 83 Linux mkfs.vfat -n BOOT /dev/sdg1 mkfs.ext2 -m 0 -b 4096 -L DATA /dev/sdg2 syslinux -s /dev/sdg1 cd

I have a usb drive, /media/disk and I want to reformat it. There are several questions that come up: How can I determine the current format? Do I use the mkfs command? Many thanks... Todd -- Ariste Software Petaluma, CA 94952 http://www.aristesoftware.com

Hi all, On a F18, I installed livecd-tools-18.15-1 I downloaded CenOS6.x minimal .iso and with livecd-iso-to-disk the resulting USB is never bootable: the computer doesnt boot on it. Tested on many computers. The fact is I succeded to install CentOS on a Netbook (no CD/DVD tray), but I dont remember how I invoked livecd-iso-to-disk. I tried with many combinations (/dev/sdc is the USB

Hi, when i run mkfs using this command mkfs -t vfat /dev/sda5 i get this mkfs.vfat: No such file or directory is there a module i need to install to support vfat? -- Regards, Mark Quitoriano, CCNA Fan the flame... http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=user/register&r=19441 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Hi, i'm trying to create an ubuntu live-pendrive using this tutorial http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2007/02/12/usb-ubuntu-tutorial-for-linux-users/ I have a 2GB USB Pendrive. When I insert the pendrive, /var/log/messages says: kernel: usb 5-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 35 kernel: usb 5-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice kernel: scsi13 : SCSI emulation for USB

Hi, I have a custom linux system that runs off a FAT32 usb flash disk. I use syslinux to make it bootable and load the kernel. I'm trying to boot now from a SSD SATA disk (500GB) but it's not working and I can't figure out why. BIOS show that no bootable disk were found. What I already tried (linux fdisk): 1- Creating a new DOS partition table on the SSD, a FAT32 (type b), and

> > I need to create one bootable UEFI disk partition that contains all the > space on the disk. The steps must work in a shell script. Ideally with > syslinux/extlinux but if not possible then grub. > > > > echo format file system > sudo mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/${DISK_DEVICE_NAME_CURRENT_OS}1 > EFI requires a FAT filesystem. Ideally FAT32 but that might be encumbered

This makes a bit easier to diagnose failures on mkfs, without the need to restart the filesystem creation with verbose output (which will produce a lot more output). --- make-fs/make-fs.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/make-fs/make-fs.c b/make-fs/make-fs.c index ff291a1..561c6ae 100644 --- a/make-fs/make-fs.c +++ b/make-fs/make-fs.c @@ -773,8 +773,8 @@

I'm having problems installing CentOS via a USB drive. First, I tried using Unetbootin, but with no avail. The 8MB netinstall doesn't work, and the big DVD image doesn't work either. http://lubi.sourceforge.net/unetbootin.html Then I tried this http://www.pendrivelinux.com/usb-centos-5-live-install-via-windows/ with a CentOS DVD file, and that did not work (just hangs). I tried

Hi, I just bought a Seagate 1TB USB drive thinking that I could create a few partitions in it, format in ext3 fs, then configure bacula to setup a backup server in my CentOS box and backup my windows and mac clients. I have plugged the drive and mounted in /mnt/usbdrive and is seen as /dev/sdb1 by the OS. The output of df command is: [root at Production ~]# df Filesystem 1K-blocks

Greetings, I''ve had no success with mounting a vfat file system created by a Windows XP guest on a lvm volume. # mount -t vfat /dev/vg1/win1 /mnt/ mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/vg1/win1, missing codepage or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so # dmesg FAT: invalid media value (0xb9) VFS:

> Yes, I tried to dd the mbr.bin and use both --install and --stupid parameters. > > The FAT32 partition is bootable. > > > Here is what I did: > > $ sudo fdisk /dev/sda -l > > Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors > Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes > Sector size

the closest i have gotten to a consistent way to test a MS-DOS filesystem setup is: dd if=/dev/zero of=binary.img bs=1M count=500 i="$(losetup -f --show binary.img )" parted binary.img mklabel msdos -s -m dd if=/usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin of="${i}" parted binary.img mkpart primary -a optimal -s -m 0% 100% parted binary.img set 1 boot on mkfs.ext4 $(kpartx -savu "${i}"

I have a USB drive that has been formatted as NTFS. Can I reformat it? I have identified these properties about it /dev/sda1 /media/Extrnl_Bkup Not sure what to do next since the GUI will not mount a NTFS disk (expected). Todd -- Ariste Software 2200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523

Hi, we do a nightly backup using rsync (v2.5.6 as server on RedHat 7.3 and rsync 2.5.5 on Windows 2000/Cygwin). The backup media connected to the Windows-Client is a VFAT-formatted Maxtor USB-Disk. Everytime I run rsync from the windows-client, the following error occurs: --- <snip> --- rsync.exe -avzr --compress --stats --delete --timeout=240 --modify-window=2 rsync@server::development

Hello list, while I managed to install syslinux and have it boot, there seems to be a problem with interpreting filenames. It looks for files in /boot but at the same time does not realize that the "/" is not part of the filename. It prompts me with boot: then every filename I type is set to 2 characters "." 3 characters i.e vmlinuz would appear as vm.lin. To me it looks like

Add the 'label' optional argument to the mkfs action, so it is possible to set a filesystem label direct when creating it. There may be filesystems not supporting changing the label of existing filesystems but only setting it at creation time, so this new optarg will help. Implement it for the most common filesystems (ext*, fat, ntfs, btrfs, xfs), giving an error for all the others, just