[ale] making a usb thumb drive bootable from a dvd install disk

[Greg Freemyer]

Is the thumb drive big enough to hold the entire DVD?

If so, it may be as simple as:

dd if=/dev/sr0 of=/dev/sdX bs=4k conv=noerror

I actually doubt that will work, but it is worth trying.

The issue is that the DVD actually has 2 partitions on it I believe.
One is a 640K bootable floppy image, and the other is what you see
when you mount the DVD normally.

So on the thumb drive you need to recreate the 2 partitions and
populate them from the 2 DVD sources.

Hope that at least helps you research your issue.

Greg

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
> Anyone got any pointers how I can create a bootable usb thumbdrive from
>  my Red Hat DVD install disk?
>
>  I want to install from the usb drive.
>
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