On Sep 22, 2011, at 7:14 AM, centos@trodman.com wrote:
Greetings:
I'm planning to set up a test Centos 6.0 box (has CDROM, but no DVD) with these partions:
/ 10GB ( no separate mount for /usr ) /tmp 1GB /var 10GB /boot 500MB
The centos mirrors I have seen do not provide the full distro on CD (this box has no DVD). I'm used to having about 6 CD isos to work with.
The livecd install to hard drive works, but apparently does not support custom partitioning (correct me if I'm wrong).
What do you suggest I do to get the partitioning I want?
I'm leaning towards: booting into single user mode, back up /var to tar file, delete /var, create a new partion for /var and /tmp, update /etc/fstab, mount /var and /tmp, restore /var from tar backup. Is the best way? I have no investment in the current install, so I can start from scratch.
---- I believe you are correct about live cd - it probably just does a wholesale copy from the CD onto the already partitioned hard drive so that provides no opportunity to partition.
Previous versions of CentOS used to offer CD series for installation but even if this is not the case (I'm too lazy to look) then you still have the option of doing the 'netinstall' version where you boot from a cd but anaconda & the packages are installed from a mirror or you can use the DVD image to burn to a 4Gb USB Flash drive (if your system can boot from USB disk).
Craig