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KrazyBob
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I have several older servers that have Teac CD-224e IDE CD-ROMs. Some places say that are also DVD readers (it's written on the quote when I bought the servers new.) But when I place a DVD in it doesn't seem to read it as a bootable DVD. I need to reinstall the new operating and CentOS 6 has gotten so big that it has to be done with a DVD ort Netinstall where it fetches the files.
1) Can anyone tell me if the Teac CD-224e is a CD/DVD? If a DVD do I need to do something to make it read as a DVD? I can't really mount the drive if it is a bootable DVD.
2) How can I create a bootable USB drive and transfer the CentOS ISO to it with my ISO writer software? Then I can boot from the USB. My hard drives are RAID 1 and are seen as /sda1 and /sda3.
I am so confused!!!
Thank you in advance for your help. Here is some code that another poster tried and wasn't impressed:
1) Can anyone tell me if the Teac CD-224e is a CD/DVD? If a DVD do I need to do something to make it read as a DVD? I can't really mount the drive if it is a bootable DVD.
2) How can I create a bootable USB drive and transfer the CentOS ISO to it with my ISO writer software? Then I can boot from the USB. My hard drives are RAID 1 and are seen as /sda1 and /sda3.
I am so confused!!!
Thank you in advance for your help. Here is some code that another poster tried and wasn't impressed:
Code:
This is not pratical the OP wrote:
"I followed this instructions:
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2012-January/122140.html
>From blank USB stick to bootable install:"
yum install livecd-tools syslinux
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1000
parted /dev/sdb mklabel msdos
parted /dev/sdb mkpartfs p ext2 0% 100%
tune2fs -m0 /dev/sdb1
parted /dev/sdb toggle 1 boot
umount /dev/sdb1
livecd-iso-to-disk <path to>/DVD.iso /dev/sdb1
mkdir /mnt/iso
mount -o loop <path to>/DVD.iso /mnt/iso
mkdir /media/<usb stick>/images
cp /mnt/iso/images/install.img /media/<usb stick>/images/
cp <path to>/DVD.iso /media/<usb stick>/