Timothy Murphy wrote:
I've looked quite carefully at my CentOS-5.5 Live CD (on a USB stick), and I don't see a Network Install option anywhere.
Try hitting the space bar during the Automatic boot countdown screen. That should give you the boot menu with the option to do the network install.
Thanks. I had actually found that by chance.
To continue my personal saga, I did manage to get CentOS-5.5 running on my HP micro-server (an excellent machine, by my experience so far) by running Network Install, as was suggested, from a CentOS Live USB stick, and accessing the DVD ISO on another machine by NFS.
I had already partitioned the hard disk with the USB stick, so I opted for a Custom Installation (as I always do) and used these partitions.
The only slight problem was that when I re-booted after installation, I could only get a grub> prompt, and no kernel could be found. (Also, rather oddly, during installation I was only offered /dev/sda2 - which I had nominated as /boot - as location for grub installation.)
I checked with the USB stick that everything was in place on the hard disk, and then mounted /dev/sda5 as /mnt/hd , and /dev/sda2 as /mnt/hd/boot , and ran "grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/hd /dev/sda". This gave the warning that /boot/grub/devices.map had /dev/sda as hd1 and /dev/sdb (the USB stick) as hd0. But after editing devices.map and running grub-install again, all was well, and I could re-boot into CentOS on the hard disk.
If anyone can suggest a simpler way of installing CentOS on a machine without a CD drive I should be interested to hear.