So, back from holiday and turning on the computer again.<\/p>\n
What I’ve done is re-cut my 2G USB stick (using Unetbootin on my PC) with the Centos5.5 DVD .iso, effectively making the Centos Live USB. For some reason it died over the holiday.<\/p>\n
Now booting with the “Live USB” and plugging in a second USB stick I followed the instructions http:\/\/lists.centos.org\/pipermail\/centos\/2010-April\/093806.html <\/a>to make a bootable install USB stick (call this the Install USB). Usefully, the “livecd-iso-to-disk” command lives in the LiveCD folder on the Live USB stick.<\/p>\n Booting from the Install USB stick allows me to specify a disk-based install, using the second partition on the Install USB stick. This time I chose the “Server GUI” and “Virtualisation” modules and opted to install grub on the Install USB stick, as I know from experience that grub2 will not boot Centos.<\/p>\n And, yes, booting from the Install USB does boot Centos from the hard drive.<\/p>\n Progress!<\/p>\n So, back from holiday and turning on the computer again. What I’ve done is re-cut my 2G USB stick (using Unetbootin on my PC) with the Centos5.5 DVD .iso, effectively making the Centos Live USB. For some reason it died … Continue reading <\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"