On Tue, 12 Jul 2011, Keith Roberts wrote:
**snip**
Conclusion: I'm still trying
Hi David. I seem to remember doing an http:// install using the net installer CD. I did it via my LAN from my main machine to an old laptop that could not read the DVD media.
Is that an option on the Centos net installer CD, and will that work for you?
I think you just need to copy the OS installation files in a directory under your Apache Document_root, and the installer just grabs the files via http.
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Installation_Guide/s1-ste... 4.6. Preparing for a Network Installation
This was a few years ago, but IIRC, I just created a temporary directory under my Apache DocumentRoot, and then mounted the DVD iso image in my downloads directory, with something like this:
[root]# mount -v CentOS-5.5-i386-bin-DVD.iso /srv/www/centos-5.5 -o loop
Then from the machine I was going to do the http network install on, I used a web browser to check that I could get a directory listing of the DVD's contents, mounted under /srv/www/centos-5.5
Give Anaconda the IP address of the machine you want to install from, and the directory and then it does the rest I think.
HTH
Keith
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