Mark Rose (mr...@charter.net)

I took a stab at making a bootable CentOS 5 Live USB pendrive and I ended up with a kernel panic. I was able to do this with a live CD of CentOS 4, but it seems the same procedure does not work for the new version.

Has anyone been able to accomplish this? Any and all thoughts are apprecicated!

Mark

I was in the process of installing VMWare Server 1.0.3 via the tarball I downloaded from their site. When it asked for the C header files for my installed kernel (2.6.18-6), hey could not be found. When I initially installed CentOS, I made sure everything was included, so I am at a loss why they can not be found. I haven't tried installing it via the RPM, but I don't think it will make a difference. Any and all thoughts are appreciated. Thanks!

Mark

---- MrKiwi <mrkiwi@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Mark,
>
> Can you please expand on 'primary os'? Do you mean you run
> your day-to-day computing from a pen drive? Or you use
> CentOS 4 as your primary os?
> If the former is the case, i'd love to know more.
>
>
> MrKiwi

Actually, it is the former - at work, all the PCs are running a very locked-down Win XP install, so to bypass it and have the tools to actually do my job, I use my "Live USB". I basically followed the instructions posted in http://linux.web.psi.ch/livecd/usbdisk.html and use the CentOS Live CD iso.

I used a 2G Lexar FireFly (1G partition formatted via FAT for the LiveCD and 1G /home via ext3). If I need to transfer files, I will copy them to the FAT partition.

I hope this helps!

Mark

---- Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists@hughesjr.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 11:20 -0400, Mark Rose wrote:
> > Does anyone know if there are any plans to make a CentOS 5 Live CD, or better yet, if there is already one available? Thanks!
> >
>
> There are plans to have one and we are testing it in QA now.

Thanks for the info! I was able to make a live USB pendrive (Lexar FireFly) with the CentOS 4 Live CD, which I use as my primary OS, and plan on doing the same when the 5 Live CD is available.

Mark

Does anyone know if there are any plans to make a CentOS 5 Live CD, or better yet, if there is already one available? Thanks!

Mark