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

John Doe jdmls at yahoo.com
Mon Aug 29 10:34:40 UTC 2011


From: Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net>

> 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.

If you have the management card, you could mount a virtual DVD and boot on it.
You could also add the setup grub entry to your grub, and put the ISO files on a local HD (that will not be overwritten).

JD



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