You may try this way:

1. Get a large USB-stick (>= 8GB)
2. Copy content of diskboot.img to USB-stick
3. Make up USB-stick bootable, by syslinux command and setting up
bootable partition of USB-stick to active state (by fdisk for ex.)
4. Put CD iso-images (not DVD -- 2GB FAT-file limit) to USB-stick
5. Boot form USB-stick and choose Hard Disk method of installation

--Oleg

02/10/2008 09:07 -0500, Troy Dawson wrote:
> Ahh ... the old "whole dvd on a usb stick".  I've tried that, but not 
> successfully so far.  I've been trying to customize Urs instructions on being 
> able to put the livecd on a usb stick an boot that.
> 
> http://linux.web.psi.ch/livecd/usbdisk.html
> 
> One thing I've found though, is that it is much much faster to do the install 
> over a network than a usb stick.  Well ... ok, what I've really found is that 
> all the large usb sticks I have are really really slow.
> But I've never succeeded in getting what you are planning, to work.
> 
> Troy
> 
> Artem Trunov wrote:
> > Hi, Oleg!
> > 
> > Thanks! But let me understand this right - the diskboot.img is only
> > few MB, so I can boot from it. But I think I want to convert a whole
> > installation DVD into FAT image file and make it bootable, so that I
> > can install all packages from USB stick?
> > 
> > cheers
> > Artem.
> > 
> > On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Oleg Sadov <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >> In English:
> >>
> >> http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.2/html/Installation_Guide/ch02s04.html#d0e838
> >>
> >> In Russian:
> >>
> >> http://www.linux-ink.ru/static/SL.5.x_Docs/Russification/Docs/ig-sl-ru/lnk9.html#lnk11-2
> >>
> >> 02/10/2008 10:21 +0200, Artem Trunov wrote:
> >>> Hi SL users,
> >>>
> >>> Does anyone have a quick recipe on how to boot/install SL from a USB
> >>> stick (when server doesn't have an optical drive)?
> >>>
> >>> cheers
> >>> Artem
> >>
> 
>