CentOS

[quote] pschaff wrote: Only way I know to do it reliably would be to come up with a repeatable process to create each stick from "scratch" in the same way. Could be with a script, or just keeping good notes to follow, and a set of files to work from.[/quote] That is rather unfortunate but thanks for...

[quote] pschaff wrote: Yes. I took the first sentence in your original post as evidence that you had identical USB sticks. If not, then a different, and more complex approach will be required.[/quote] Yes, I did express myself carelessly in that regard. Do you perhaps know how this can be achieved u...

That was a good idea but unfortunately I have a hard time getting it to work when applying it to different brands of USB sticks so perhaps identical USB sticks are required?

Hello, I have created a bootable preconfigured USB stick for automatic CENTOS installations and I would like to create an ISO-file so I can apply it for identical USB sticks as well. In other words I would like to copy the whole USB stick including boot sector and partitions to an ISO-file that in t...

I managed to solve the issue by adding the "ignoredisk --drives=sdb" parameter for the USB drive and now the installer leaves the USB stick intact and the installation works flawlessly. I however still do not know why the installer affected the disk in the first place but this flag did at any rate s...

As a matter of fact I tried the --driveorder flag and that actually worked as it now can boot directly without USB stick which is a great step forward. The only remaining obstacle is that somehow the FAT32 partition disappear from the USB stick so it cannot be used for future installations. This can...

[quote] pschaff wrote: [quote] andersbiro wrote: ... There seems to be a kickstart "bootloader" option but I can not really see any flags that would explicitly set the GRUB on a specified hard drive?[/quote][/quote] How about [url=https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/Installa...

[quote] AlanBartlett wrote: In the [i]CentOS[/i] wiki article that you reference, under the heading [b]Notes[/b], there is a [color=ff1480]cherry-red[/color] block of text. Isn't that appropriate? If not, do you have any suggestions for improvement to the article?[/quote] To my understanding this sp...

Hello, I have successfully created a Centos USB stick installation with an automated kickstart configuration according to the instructions at http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey . Everything works flawlessly with the exception that the installation writes the GRUB Boot Loaders on the USB...

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gerald_clark wrote:
It was corrected in post #4.[/quote]

Yes, I missed that one but now it works. Thanks.