Les Mikesell wrote: > On 4/8/11 5:28 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> >>> It should go to the raw disk device, not a partition and you shouldn't >>> need to format first. >> >> The reason I re-formatted it was that fdisk said >> there was no valid partition table after dd-ing bootdisk.img onto >> /dev/sdb . > > I thought small usb devices generally didn't have a partition table and > just have one filesystem on the raw device. But I don't have a lot of > experience with them. In any case the img file should have whatever needs to be > there. <snip> Nope, they do. As I mentioned in my build of the USB key install, I have two partitions on the key, one that's 10M, and is FAT formatted, and the rest of the 8G that's ext2. mark _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos