On Mon, 9 Apr 2012 09:48:44 -0700
Konstantin Olchanski <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 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).

Hi,

I suggest you to take a look at this thread in SL forum:
http://scientificlinuxforum.org/index.php?showtopic=1433&hl=

Cheers.