Re: CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

[Timothy Murphy <gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Les Mikesell wrote:

>> I did try the dd method again, but it didn't work for me.
> 
> I still don't understand what is going wrong for you.  I just went
> through these motions:
>   download the bootdisk.img file from:
> http://mirror.highspeedweb.net/CentOS/5.5/os/i386/images/
> then
>   dd if=bootdisk.img of=/dev/sdb
> to a 64M USB key.
> (the only quirk here was that my ubuntu laptop automounted the usb key
> when I inserted it so I had to 'umount /dev/sdb' first)
>   and then 'reboot'

Thanks, it did work this time when I got the file from the above site
(given that it is diskboot.img not bootdisk.img).
The only difference I can see is that previously I took the file
from the CentOS 64-bit DVD ISO (loop-mounted).

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[tim@blanche ~]$ cd Downloads/
[tim@blanche Downloads]$ ls -ls diskboot.img
12288 -rw-rw-r--. 1 tim tim 12582912 Apr  9 01:43 diskboot.img
[tim@blanche Downloads]$ ls -ls diskboot.img
12288 -rw-rw-r--. 1 tim tim 12582912 Apr  9 01:43 diskboot.img
[tim@blanche Downloads]$ sudo dd if=diskboot.img of=/dev/sdb
24576+0 records in
24576+0 records out
12582912 bytes (13 MB) copied, 4.0099 s, 3.1 MB/s
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Timothy Murphy  
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