On Mon, 9 Apr 2012 09:48:44 -0700 Konstantin Olchanski <[email protected]> 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.
