Installing RHEL with a memory stick

[karlp at ourldsfamily.com]

On Mon, September 18, 2006 7:29 pm, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 16:20 -0700, Waldher, Travis R wrote:
>> Any advice on getting RHEL using a memory stick?
>>
>>
>>
>> I?ve been googling and have come up with nada.
>>
>>
>>
>> (the computer doesn?t have CDROM)
>
> Well, yeah.  You need to download the first CD ISO image and mount
> it.  E.g.
>
>     # mkdir -p /mnt/work
>     # mount -t iso9660 -o loop /path/to/iso/image /mnt/work
>
> On it, you'll find an images/diskboot.img file.  Copy that to your
> pen drive using dd.  If the pen drive shows up as /dev/sda, then
>
>     # dd if=/mnt/work/images/diskboot.img of=/dev/sda bs=2K
>
> Then boot from the pen drive, assuming your BIOS supports it.  If not,
> and you have a floppy drive, then download SmartBootManager
>
> 	http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4185
>
> and put it on a floppy.  Boot from floppy, specify next boot from the
> pen drive and voila!  From there, you can do net, diskimage, http or ftp
> install (all the standard install stuff is there).

I've been interested in this since finding and using (credit card CD) BBC-LNX
and DSL for some maintenance issues on some PCs. (I have DSL running on our
WillCall PC; cool).

I bought a Everex StepNote laptop and installed FC5 on hda2 (WinXP is on
hda1). It works great. If I boot with a 512MB thumb drive, it says Operating
System Missing. I followed the above prompt, and it just hangs now. I had to
dd of=/dev/sda1, however, not just sda because it didn't even recognize the
thumb drive on boot and went straight to GRUB.

So, any hints? I've tried both distros with no luck on both a 128MB and 512MB
thumb drive.

Karl


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