centos-bounces@centos.org wrote:
this machine can boot only from a ... HardDrive. USB is not an
option.
What I did: Move said hard drive to a system that has a DVD, and install there. I had to "tweak a few things" because of how the install process worked, and the differences in hardware between this DVD-capable system and my target systems, but, after said futzing, I had a HD that would boot my target systems, and I could dupe the drive for all the product we make.
After that, the drive is a "programmable part", and the code we run is an application we update in the field... ...if you're a server environment, your hurdles will not be the same as mine.
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