i definitely had the same experience back then. Anybody had luck with
simply dd a current CentOS iso. I wonder if RedHat supports
ISOHybrid?
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Joseph Spenner <joseph85750@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>
> ________________________________
> > From: Nux! <nux@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 11:26 AM
>>Subject: Re: idea: "hybrid" iso images?
>
>>
>>On 15.04.2013 19:07, Joseph Spenner wrote:
>>> In order to create a bootable CentOS installation USB thumb drive,
>>> there are several steps one must follow. The process often involves
>>> using a Windows box, which can be kinda annoying.
>>>
>>> The Linux Mint distro has what they call a "Hybrid" iso image.
>>> (see: http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/744 )
>>>
>>> This image can be written to a thumb drive and used for installation
>>> simply by performing:
>>>
>>> # dd /path/to/image.iso of=/dev/sdb
>>> (where /dev/sdb is the thumb drive device).
>>>
>>> This thumb drive can now be booted and used for installation.
>>> The same image.iso file can be written to CD/DVD to create the
>>> installation media as well.
>>>
>>>
>>> Is this a complicated ISO build process? I'm frequently installing
>>> to systems without CD/DVD drives, so this would come in handy.
>
>> Centos ISOs have been "hybrid" for a while now AFAIK. Have you tried
>> them and did not work?
>
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>
> Nux:
>
> I just tried again, using an 8G thumb drive, with the
> CentOS-6.4-x86_64-minimal.iso image on my 64bit Dell laptop, and got a
> quick error:
> "no boot sector found on USB device"
> It then proceeded to boot the next device in the boot order list.
> I also tried it on 2 other Dell servers, and neither would boot the thumb drive.
>
> I then dd'd the latest Linux Mint iso to the same thumb drive, and it worked fine on my laptop.
> So, perhaps the CentOS images can not (yet) be used this way.
> Have you tried?
>
> Thanks for the reply!
>
> Regards,
> Joseph Spenner
>
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