Dear Gurus Thanks for the responses. I'll summarize what I've learned trying to install Centos6 on a Dell Optiplex GX 240
Review: a) I decried the lack of CD images for Centos6. b) I was informed that it's unlikely they'll be produced due to an upstream decision. c) I pointed out that the machine only had floppy, CD and HD boots capability. d) I got a suggestion to use the network method.
Results: 1) PXE boot might work, but it seems that it's a lot of trouble setting up a PXE server. I'm still working on it. 2) The NET-INSTALL indeed did work, with the following gotchas: 2a) The URL to enter is not obvious. 2b) I tried the one at Stanford, and at uidaho, but they failed. 2c) Finally, http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6.0/os/i386 worked. 3) SInce I had only a text install, various interesting and important programs were missing: ssh (which apparently is masquerading under the name "openssh-clients"), ftp and perl, which YUM got for me.
4) The module perl-Digest-MD5 was not in the repository. Was its removal intentional, or is it hiding in some other Centos6 repository?
5) The line-by-line notation during bootstrap is no longer shown. This makes it difficult to detect where hangups occur during the bootstrap process. Is there a way to display those notations in real time?
Conclusion: I'm still trying
David
On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, david wrote:
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: david david@daku.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Installing from CD
Dear Gurus Thanks for the responses. I'll summarize what I've learned trying to install Centos6 on a Dell Optiplex GX 240
Review: a) I decried the lack of CD images for Centos6. b) I was informed that it's unlikely they'll be produced due to an upstream decision. c) I pointed out that the machine only had floppy, CD and HD boots capability. d) I got a suggestion to use the network method.
Results:
- PXE boot might work, but it seems that it's a lot of trouble
setting up a PXE server. I'm still working on it. 2) The NET-INSTALL indeed did work, with the following gotchas: 2a) The URL to enter is not obvious. 2b) I tried the one at Stanford, and at uidaho, but they failed. 2c) Finally, http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6.0/os/i386 worked. 3) SInce I had only a text install, various interesting and important programs were missing: ssh (which apparently is masquerading under the name "openssh-clients"), ftp and perl, which YUM got for me.
- The module perl-Digest-MD5 was not in the repository. Was
its removal intentional, or is it hiding in some other Centos6 repository?
- The line-by-line notation during bootstrap is no longer
shown. This makes it difficult to detect where hangups occur during the bootstrap process. Is there a way to display those notations in real time?
Conclusion: I'm still trying
Hi David. I seem to remember doing an http:// install using the net installer CD. I did it via my LAN from my main machine to an old laptop that could not read the DVD media.
Is that an option on the Centos net installer CD, and will that work for you?
I think you just need to copy the OS installation files in a directory under your Apache Document_root, and the installer just grabs the files via http.
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Installation_Guide/s1-ste... 4.6. Preparing for a Network Installation
Kind Regards,
Keith
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On Tue, 12 Jul 2011, Keith Roberts wrote:
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Conclusion: I'm still trying
Hi David. I seem to remember doing an http:// install using the net installer CD. I did it via my LAN from my main machine to an old laptop that could not read the DVD media.
Is that an option on the Centos net installer CD, and will that work for you?
I think you just need to copy the OS installation files in a directory under your Apache Document_root, and the installer just grabs the files via http.
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Installation_Guide/s1-ste... 4.6. Preparing for a Network Installation
This was a few years ago, but IIRC, I just created a temporary directory under my Apache DocumentRoot, and then mounted the DVD iso image in my downloads directory, with something like this:
[root]# mount -v CentOS-5.5-i386-bin-DVD.iso /srv/www/centos-5.5 -o loop
Then from the machine I was going to do the http network install on, I used a web browser to check that I could get a directory listing of the DVD's contents, mounted under /srv/www/centos-5.5
Give Anaconda the IP address of the machine you want to install from, and the directory and then it does the rest I think.
HTH
Keith
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On 07/12/2011 01:11 AM, david wrote:
- The line-by-line notation during bootstrap is no longer
shown. This makes it difficult to detect where hangups occur during the bootstrap process. Is there a way to display those notations in real time?
Yes, edit /boot/grub/grub.conf and remove "rhgb quiet".
Mogens
On 12/07/2011 06:42, Mogens Kjaer wrote: On 07/12/2011 01:11 AM, david wrote:
- The line-by-line notation during bootstrap is no longer
shown. This makes it difficult to detect where hangups occur during the bootstrap process. Is there a way to display those notations in real time?
Yes, edit /boot/grub/grub.conf and remove "rhgb quiet".
Mogens
Or just hit ESC during boot, and the pretty blue bar disappears and you get back the normal display of booting stuff.
hth Andy
david wrote:
Conclusion: I'm still trying
David
There will be Minimal Server CD in next several days so you will be able to install core system via CD and then add GUI and the rest of the packages via yum.
Maybe those creating Minimal Server CD could create simple script with yum command that would contain all packages/groups missing from Minimal Server CD that are in Minimal Desktop installation option from the DVD.
Ljubomir
On 07/12/11 1:19 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
david wrote:
Conclusion: I'm still trying
David
There will be Minimal Server CD in next several days so you will be able to install core system via CD and then add GUI and the rest of the packages via yum.
Maybe those creating Minimal Server CD could create simple script with yum command that would contain all packages/groups missing from Minimal Server CD that are in Minimal Desktop installation option from the DVD.
the logical thing for that would be a yum groupinstall... just need to have a group defined for this. In fact, there might already be such a group.
John R Pierce wrote:
the logical thing for that would be a yum groupinstall... just need to have a group defined for this. In fact, there might already be such a group.
But there might be several groups and few separate packages, and without at least wiki howto with given yum commands you will have to repeat instructions over and over again. Script or wiki page with instructions for noob would help greatly.
Ljubomir
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