I have the two DVD isos for CentOS 6.5 mounted as loopback, on the mount points /centos6 and /centos6a, and am trying to use them for PXE/KS installation.
The problem I have is that the packages in /centos6a/Packages are not found by the installer.
The host is a CentOS 5 system. Is there a way for me to overlay the second DVD on the first without having to copy all the packages from both isos into a new directory?
Or is there a standard path I can use to mount the second DVD that the installer will use for packages that are not found on the first?
Or any other ideas? I'm sure I can't be the first to stumble over this!
Cheers Tony
On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 04:15:44PM +0000, Tony Mountifield wrote:
Or any other ideas? I'm sure I can't be the first to stumble over this!
Make a symlink tree from a third location that just points to all the files, and point your boot infrastructure at that.
(assuming you're doing a http based install that "follow symlinks" is enabled on your web server).
On 07/15/2014 12:15 PM, Tony Mountifield wrote:
Or is there a standard path I can use to mount the second DVD that the installer will use for packages that are not found on the first?
Or any other ideas? I'm sure I can't be the first to stumble over this!
Use the 'mkdvdiso.sh' script found at http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/CDtoDVDMedia to join the two ISO's into a single ISO, and then use that. I've used this script for a while, with CentOS 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, and 6.5 to make the 'DL' ISO for use on an 8GB USB key (made with livecd-iso-to-disk).
In article 53C55690.90209@pari.edu, Lamar Owen lowen@pari.edu wrote:
On 07/15/2014 12:15 PM, Tony Mountifield wrote:
Or is there a standard path I can use to mount the second DVD that the installer will use for packages that are not found on the first?
Or any other ideas? I'm sure I can't be the first to stumble over this!
Use the 'mkdvdiso.sh' script found at http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/CDtoDVDMedia to join the two ISO's into a single ISO, and then use that. I've used this script for a while, with CentOS 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, and 6.5 to make the 'DL' ISO for use on an 8GB USB key (made with livecd-iso-to-disk).
Excellent, thank you! Just the job.
Tony
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