RHEL 5.2 USB install questions
Hi All,
I have a challenging situation. I wish to install RHEL 5.2 on a server which does not have a floppy/cd/dvd drive. Thus I am trying to install from a USB drive. Also, I do not have a Linux machine to follow the instructions on previous threads on how to make the USB bootable. I have a Mac and Windows machine and I am trying to get the necessary files onto the USB. I have dd (disk duplicated) the diskboot.img onto the USB. When I run fdisk I have one partition with the diskboot.img stuff on it and it is marked as active. However, my Mac disk utility tool still says the drive is not bootable. So here are my questions: 1) is there some unix like command I can use on my Mac to make the disk bootable? Or does anyone know how I might make it bootable? It seems like there must be some simple way to do this. 2) Now that I have the contents of diskboot.img on the USB drive do I just copy the rest of the RHEL 5.2 DVD contents onto the USB drive? I'm just wondering how this part works. The contents of diskboot.img should boot up linux, but do I have to do something special (make particular directories on the USB) so that the remainder of the files on the RHEL 5.2 DVD will be found? Thanks in advance |
does the windows machine have a cd writer. could you burn a live cd and create the usb installer with the live-linux machine
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Sorry I don't understand. I downloaded RHEL 5.2 and burned it to a DVD on my Mac. What is meant by "live cd"? Does that mean bootable? If so, than what you are driving at is making a bootable CD and copying it to the USB and the bootable attribute would be retained and transferred to the USB? Sorry for the basic questions.
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Why not just dd the entire DVD content to USB?
Or you can dd DVD content to .ISO (for Windows) and go with instruction in www.pendrivelinux.com. Each distro has different instruction to install. |
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a live cd would allow you to have a temporary linux computer to run your needed commands. |
Oh, I see. I'll look into the live CD route then. You are correct I don't have a linux box to run the appropriate commands on. I thought by just getting the diskboot.img info and the rest of the RHEL 5.2 files on the USB was going to be enough... if I could somehow make it bootable.
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fyi, i'm using fc-11 live-usb:
Code:
[liveuser@localhost ~]$ sudo fdisk -l |
Thanks for all your replies. It occured to me the easiest thing would be to install a RHEL virtual machine on my Mac and follow one of the threads on how to make the USB a bootable drive.
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