--- On Fri, 4/1/11, Timothy Murphy gayleard@eircom.net wrote:
From: Timothy Murphy gayleard@eircom.net Subject: Re: [CentOS] cobbler installation of CentOS-5.5 To: centos@centos.org Date: Friday, April 1, 2011, 5:46 PM Timothy Murphy wrote:
I'm trying to install CentOS-5.5 on my new HP
micro-server,
which has no CD drive.
I've set up cobbler and cobbler-web on my old server, and can access cobbler-web from my laptop.
Just to end the story. Having found the DVD ISO with the help of this newsgroup, I installed CentOS-5.5 on my HP micro-server using cobbler, with no trouble at all.
But I was surprised to find that this had deleted the partitioning which I had carefully installed with Fedora Live CD on a USB stick, and assigned the whole disk to LVM.
I looked on the web to see how I could modify ks.cfg to make a partition of my own choice, but decided after a brief study that life is too short to spend on the intricacies of kickstart.
So I have given up cobbler, and will try the netinstall CD next, installing it on a USB stick. If that doesn't work I shall put the CentOS Live CD on a stick, and install that on the hard disk.
If all you want to do is kick-off an install via USB stick, you want
http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5.5/os/x86_64/images/diskboot.img
and use syslinux/memdisk to boot it on a vfat partition
------------- syslinux.cfg ------------ label c564 kernel memdisk append initrd=/diskboot.img --------- snip --------
you can dd the whole IMG to your stick, but its cleaner to collect such images and reference them in syslinux.cfg.
To setup your stick to boot #syslinux -s /dev/sda (unmounted USB disk)