Make Bootable USB Drive

Bydonfrank

Make Bootable USB Drive with RHEL 6.3

Copy all files for image to a directory, RHEL63KS.

Make the iso image file by typing the following command:

mkisofs -o boot.iso -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -R -J -V RHEL63KS -T ./RHEL63KS

This will create a file called boot.iso. Rename this file, RHEL63KS.iso.

Insert the USB stick and type dmesg to see where the drive is mounted.

usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Vendor: SanDisk Model: Cruzer Rev: 1.27
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 06
SCSI device sdb: 62530624 512-byte hdwr sectors (32016 MB)

Drive is at sdb. Unmount the USB drive and then type the following comand to copy the iso image to the USB stick:

dd if=/root/Desktop/RHEL63KS.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=512k

This will take several minutes and there will be no progress indication. When it is done you can remove the USB drive.

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