Comments on: Installing CentOS On An External USB Drive http://www.brool.com/index.php/installing-centos-on-an-external-usb-drive brool \brool\ (n.) : a low roar; a deep murmur or humming Wed, 16 Nov 2011 04:35:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Shayne Brandon http://www.brool.com/index.php/installing-centos-on-an-external-usb-drive/comment-page-1#comment-121203 Shayne Brandon Sun, 03 Apr 2011 02:13:31 +0000 http://blog.brool.com/?p=74#comment-121203 Hi from me too! I just installed CentOS 5.5 onto a 32GB USB flash drive using step 1. Had to use the "linux expert" since the generic installer didn't show my usb flash drive. Even though I told it to install the OS to the flash drive on sdb, it only wanted to put grub on sda so I opted out of installing the bootloader. Needless to say, it wouldn't boot after the install. Used step 2 to get to a shell. chrooted to the flash drive and used grub-install /dev/sdb1 to get grub on it. Still wouldn't boot because there was no grub.conf. Used step 2 again and created a simple grub.conf. I'm now running CentOS off a flash drive for demos of our work. When demo is over, remove the stick and reboot. Thanks! Shayne Hi from me too!

I just installed CentOS 5.5 onto a 32GB USB flash drive using step 1. Had to use the “linux expert” since the generic installer didn’t show my usb flash drive.

Even though I told it to install the OS to the flash drive on sdb, it only wanted to put grub on sda so I opted out of installing the bootloader. Needless to say, it wouldn’t boot after the install.

Used step 2 to get to a shell. chrooted to the flash drive and used grub-install /dev/sdb1 to get grub on it.

Still wouldn’t boot because there was no grub.conf. Used step 2 again and created a simple grub.conf.

I’m now running CentOS off a flash drive for demos of our work. When demo is over, remove the stick and reboot.

Thanks!

Shayne

]]> By: Mark Payne http://www.brool.com/index.php/installing-centos-on-an-external-usb-drive/comment-page-1#comment-118538 Mark Payne Tue, 15 Feb 2011 07:54:14 +0000 http://blog.brool.com/?p=74#comment-118538 Hi there, Just installed CentOS 4.8 on a 16Gb OCZ Rally and it just worked out of the box! I didn't have to rebuild the initrd at all... hope this info helps someone. Hi there,

Just installed CentOS 4.8 on a 16Gb OCZ Rally and it just worked out of the box!

I didn’t have to rebuild the initrd at all… hope this info helps someone.

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