[CentOS] Update to CentOS 6.0 without CD/DVD reader

Timothy Murphy

gayleard at eircom.net
Sun Aug 28 13:52:32 UTC 2011


I've had a disaster on my home network server;
the partition table on the disk containing / has become corrupted,
and testdisk has not enabled me to recover the table.
If anyone can help with this I should be grateful.
However, that is not what I am writing about.

I've installed a substitute box - and HP MicroServer -
which by a miracle has CentOS-5.6 installed on it.
Now I'm wondering what is the best way to install CentOS-6,
given that there is no CD/DVD driver on this machine.

I have access to the internet, so I can download the CD/DVD .
I know I could install through a USB stick;
I'm just wondering if there is a more direct route.

I should look this up, but I'm rather weary after installing dovecot,
httpd, etc, and thought I'd take a short cut by asking you gurus.

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Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland




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