Mark Pryor wrote:
>> > I'm trying to install CentOS-5.5 on my new HP
>> micro-server,
>> > which has no CD drive.
> If all you want to do is kick-off an install via USB stick, you want
>
> http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5.5/os/x86_64/images/diskboot.img
>
> and use syslinux/memdisk to boot it on a vfat partition
>
> ------------- syslinux.cfg ------------
> label c564
> kernel memdisk
> append initrd=/diskboot.img
> --------- snip --------
>
> you can dd the whole IMG to your stick, but its cleaner to collect such
> images and reference them in syslinux.cfg.
>
> To setup your stick to bootZZ
> #syslinux -s /dev/sda (unmounted USB disk)
Thanks for the suggestion.
But would that be simpler than transferring netinstall.iso to a USB stick?
(I've always found the syslinux documentation bizarre,
with its frequent references to floppies.)
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