John R Pierce wrote:
On 08/28/11 6:52 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Now I'm wondering what is the best way to install CentOS-6, given that there is no CD/DVD driver on this machine.
I have access to the internet, so I can download the CD/DVD . I know I could install through a USB stick; I'm just wondering if there is a more direct route.
A) PXE boot and do a network installation aka kickstart. This would, of course, require another 'nix system on the LAN running DHCP, TFTP, and NFS
Thanks for the suggestions. I've always found PXEboot extraordinarily difficult to use. I think I succeeded on one occasion, and failed on many others. I usually tried using cobbler, but as I said with little success.
B) boot a USB stick with the Netinstall image, and point it at a http URL of the centos repository, which could be either a local mirror or one on the internet somewhere as long as your internet is reasonably fast and stable. I'd suggest doing a bare minimal install this way, then adding other stuff post-install with yum.
I guess this is probably the easiest solution. I haven't downloaded CentOS-6 yet, so I would have to download it anyway. As you say, starting with a minimal download is probably best.
But I had hoped there was some simple way of abstracting vmlinux and initrd from the CD or DVD image, and adding a stanza to grub.conf to boot from those?