There are some video cards that have trouble booting into the graphical installation program. If the installation program does not run using its default settings, it. How to install Cent. OS 6 via USB mass storage device The problem that you are having with Centos Fedora RHEL are that they install from a kickstart ks. CDDVD. Running a live CDDVD is a different animal. Many ISO to USB tools are based on using a Live CD image and not a install image. On many Linux distros there is no difference in Live to Install, but the CentosRHEL, Fedora distros do have different ISOs for a reason good or not is debatable. So far I have only found that iso. Xboot handle this task somewhat correctly. The underlying problem is that the kickstart file contents have more information that needs changing to work correctly. There are also differences in CentosRHEL versions 6. I worked out for 6. Basically these distros install almost everything from RPM files and not binaries contained in the ISO. This RPM method works for install, upgrade, modification, updates from CD or Network or local file, but makes installing from USB tough. Change 1, The USB stick can look like a local drive and not a CD, then that mounting location can change depending on the typebrand of USB stick you have. Some are recognized as hard drives behind a USB Hub, others are seen as a harddrive no USB others are not recognized at all by the BIOS and some are recognized by the BIOS and when the install process gets handed off to the Centos installer for completion then that no longer works because the USB stick changes mount point and can not be found change 2. I have found that different brandstypesformats of USB sticks change mounting locations during the install process and that causes two kinds of failures. Your hard drive changes mount point, or the USB changes mount point. You can take the easier path and install from a Live. CD or Live. DVD image on a USB stick. Just boot the live image and the perform the install from the desktop or do the init 6 thing. I believe that performing an install using the net install ISO file from a USB stick should work because the point where the installer looks for the RPM files is going to be looking on the NET and not on the USB drive that has moved mount points, but I have not tried that yet. I want to install CentOS 6. 2 on a laptop Thinkpad R40 which comes without CDDVDdrive but with USB 2. 0 ports. It seems that CentOS does not provide readytouse dd.