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 > >> > >