Kickstart using USB Flash Drive

[Samuel Flory]

Rebecca.R.Hepper at seagate.com wrote:
> I am using RH 9.  If I do a 'dd' to copy the bootdisk.img to my USB flash
> drive, I can kickstart a system successfully.  I want to kickstart
> additional systems that require modules not available in the bootdisk.img
> although they are available in the drvnet.img.  Is there a way to get both
> the bootdisk.img and drvnet.img on one USB flash drive so I don't have to
> utilize a separate driver disk?  Or is there a way to increase whatever
> size limit is on the image file so I can add all the modules I need to the
> bootdisk.img then copy it to the USB flash drive?
> 

This is really easy.  You can just use syslinux, and the initrd with 
every module.

1)Format the usb stick drive as one big fat32 partition.*
2)copy everything in the cdrom's isolinux directory to the base 
directory of the usb stick. (You don't need isolinux.bin, boot.cat, and 
  TRANS.TBL)
3)rename isolinux.cfg to syslinux.cfg
4)Optional you may want to use the initrd-everthing out of the 
images/pxe directory on the cdrom.
5)Install syslinux on the usb stick drive. syslinux /dev/(device).

* I find that mkdosfs doesn't like to format an entire device. So you 
may need to do the following:
cat /dev/sd(whatever) >usb.stick
mkdosfs usb.stick
cat usb.stick > /dev/sd(whatever)

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