On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 10:52:00AM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Friday, April 06, 2012 10:16:45 AM you wrote:
> >         Can someone explain what the problem is here? I really don't
> >         care about creating a live Linux on a flash drive, just want to
> >         install without burning a DVD but nothing I have tried so far
> >         has met with success. I am open to suggestions.
> 
> There is a set of instructions on doing a USB stick install on the CentOS Wiki; SL and CentOS are similar enough that those same instructions should work ok.  I've done multiple USB stick installs this way.
> 


I am puzzled why SL does not come with a pre-made USB-stick installer. (DVD disks? In 2012? Seriously?
At least they do not make us use paper tape or PDP-11 toggle-switches).

Since all the wiki pages about installing live usb creators, etc bore me, I wrote my own instructions
for creating a USB-bootable SL installer using the isolinux/extlinux boot loader. Go here:

http://trshare.triumf.ca/~olchansk/linux/SL61-64-USBBOOT/AAA-README-USBBOOT

(You will recognise this as the image of the PXE-bootable SL installer with
the directory containing all the RPMs removed, and extlinux boot files added)

(I hope some day the SL installer will learn how to install RPMs from a directory
instead of from an ISO image. On this happy day we will gain the ability to
customise the installer by adding and removing packages as we wish, without hassle.

Note that the SL installer installs from a directory full of RPMs when booted from
the network, but refuses to do so if booted from USB. I guess they are trying to
be friendly and helpful).


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Konstantin Olchanski
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