install from usb stick

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On 5/25/06, karlp at ourldsfamily.com <karlp at ourldsfamily.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 25, 2006 5:30 pm, Mark Hammerton said:
> > I have a  2gb stick and i would like to us it to do custom RHEL 4 installs.
> > The problem is when i use the iso that i have created it doesnt boot at
> > all,  I used the mkisofs command and specified the el torrito boot that came
> > with RHEL on the cd1.
> >
> > I see that redhat says that i can use the diskboot.img file from on the cd
> > to create a bootable usb however this is only just to boot i need the entire
> > five cds to fit on the one usb stick.  I will remove a few rps that i do not
> > need such as some from kde and a few from gnome since i dont need a GUI.
> >
> > But can anyone help me with getting all cds on to one usb stick.
>
> Not without some hefty $$$. Each CD is mapped specifically to the install
> routines, so just putting RPMs on the stick and then copying the install
> software won't, work. You have to map everything and then make it work. It
> would be -theoretically- possible if you used a single DVD image, but no
> guarantees...

I don't really understand this. You can toss all the rpms into a
network install tree and just point at it so why wouldn't pointing
your installation to the same tree on your usb stick work?

John