On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 07:17:51 -0800, EXT-Askew, R W <[log in to unmask]> 
wrote:
I wanted to follow up with answers to my own questions in case it may help 
someone else.

>Thanks for the response.
>
>I have couple of more questions.
>In your readme mentioned mbr.bin and extlinux.  
>Is mbr.bin a copy of /usr/share/syslinux/mbr.bin ?

/usr/share/syslinux/mbr.bin seems to work just fine

>Are extlinux and extlinux.conf copies of /sbin/extlinux 
and /etc/extlinux.conf ?

The above worked fine as well

>
>Also, do you do the install with a kickstart file on the USB drive?
>From a DVD, my boot line looks like this
>Boot: Linux ks=cdrom:/ks.cfg
>What would I replace cdrom: with?

I have a T61p and it mounts the USB thumb drive as sda1 so I enter
linux ks=hd:sda1/ks.cfg

since the USB drive is sda1 I needed to change
clearpart --all --initlabel --drives=sda
to
clearpart --all --initlabel --drives=sdb

I am still trying to determine the smallest packege set required, but I am 
off and running. :-)

Cheers


>
>Thanks
>
>Bill
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Konstantin Olchanski [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
>Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 11:09 AM
>To: EXT-Askew, R W
>Cc: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: self contained usb install using kickstart howto
>
>On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 09:48:01AM -0600, rwa wrote:
>> 
>> I am working on a custom SL6.2 installation and am interested in using 
a 
>> USB thumb drive to trouble shoot the installation so that I do not need 
to 
>> burn so many DVDs.  I have looked through a lot of HowTos but none of 
them 
>> seem to be geared toward a standalone self contained install from a USB 
>> drive using a kickstart file.
>> Can anyone point me to such a HowTo?
>> 
>
>I have instructions for building an SL6.1 USB install disk here
>(trivial to update for SL6.2):
>
>http://trshare.triumf.ca/~olchansk/linux/SL61-64-USBBOOT/
>
>-- 
>Konstantin Olchanski
>Data Acquisition Systems: The Bytes Must Flow!
>Email: olchansk-at-triumf-dot-ca
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