On 7.4.2011 14:47, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
If anyone can suggest a simpler way of installing CentOS on a machine without a CD drive I should be interested to hear.
I thought I did that a long time ago. Put the small boot.img file that is in the /images on the CD or DVD isos on a USB drive (you can use a loopback mount to get it if you can't find a place to download it separately), boot from it, pick nfs as the install method, and point it to the directory containing the CD iso images that you have under an NFS export on another box.
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But when I said "simple" I really meant "following official methods and instructions given by Them, the CentOS powers-that-be".
I assume that the lack of a CD drive on the HP micro-server is a sign of things to come, so I would hope there would be an official method of installing CentOS on such a machine.
I think what Les suggested is one official supported method as outlined in the Installation Guide. How "official" do you want it ?
I prefer PXE, but thats also not "simple", and not possible in every environment, colocations for instance.