This blog covers how to create a bootable USB drive to install Linux on a system. It does NOT cover how to install Linux as a bootable operating system ON A USB DRIVE but rather to load an .iso onto a USB to INSTALL Linux on some computer. So I got my first server, a used Dell R900 and wanted to load CentOS 7 on it ASAP. I have always known about Linux, I have played with it in VMs, dual-booted it a few times to mess around, but this was when creating CD boot disks was cheaper and more convenient then flash drives (if they couldn't even fit distros on them). I haven't really spent a whole lot of time in it until the last few years. It was either at work or school so it was on equipment where it was already set up. I was in a rush and I wanted to get it installed so the first thing I did was format my 32gb flash drive and copied the .iso file. In this case it was the CentOS 7.2 Minimal image. This did not work, wouldn't even boot. I actually expected this to happen but I h...
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