[svlug] "dd" first CD image to USB pendrive for booting?

[Bill-Schoolcraft]

Hello Family,

On various flavors of Linux, there is NFS install option(s), on
CentOS/RHEL* it consists of the boot arg of:

	linux text askmethod

And when I use SuSE it consists of using their "mini-network" iso image.

I purchased two SandDisk 1-gig "Cruzer" drives this weekend and they
came with a fat32 filesystem and my objective is just to have the USB
pendrive "act" (or become) the first iso install image of the above
examples.

I have tried a few things on a server that works fine with a standard
USB_CDROM and have received "No operating system found..." etc.

What I have tried is the following:

(A) dd'd the first iso right on top of /dev/sda (the pendrive). That
idea came from the days of dd'ing a floopy image on top of /dev/fd0

(B) created /dev/sda1 on the pendrive, dd'd the image there, made it
bootable and nada...

I've done some gOOgling and there is alot of mention to DSL, Slax etc
but nothing to more or less address what I'm trying to do...

(question)
Am I missing something core to this process in terms of the legacy
bootstrap process or?

Thanks

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  Bill Schoolcraft <*> http://wiliweld.com

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    lying in hospitals dying of nothing."
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