Has anyone installed CentOS-6 from the hard disk? I just tried this without success.
I should say that I asked the question before about CentOS-5.6, and while I got many suggestions in reply, no-one actually said that they _had_ installed CentOS this way.
What I did was to "mount -o loop" the DVD iso (which I checksum-ed) and copy isolinux/vmlinuz and isolinux/initrd.img , as well as the images/ directory, to /boot , and then added a simple stanza ------------------------ title CentOS-6 root (hd0,1) kernel /vmlinuz text askmethod initrd /initrd.img ------------------------
The machine - I should have said that it is an HP MicroServer - boots fine, until it gets to "Waiting for hardware to initialize", at which point the screen goes blank and nothing appears to happen.
I should say that the machine is running under CentOS-5.6, which I installed with a USB stick. I'm trying to install CentOS-6 on another partition. I shall try the USB stick method shortly.
But I would be interested to know if anyone has actually installed CentOS-6 from the hard disk, and if so how.
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:59:54PM +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Has anyone installed CentOS-6 from the hard disk? I just tried this without success.
I should say that I asked the question before about CentOS-5.6, and while I got many suggestions in reply, no-one actually said that they _had_ installed CentOS this way.
What I did was to "mount -o loop" the DVD iso (which I checksum-ed) and copy isolinux/vmlinuz and isolinux/initrd.img , as well as the images/ directory, to /boot , and then added a simple stanza
You may have to mount it, then copy all the files from it into another directory--I seem to remember Fedora losing this ability awhile ago. However, that's a vague memory and may be wrong.
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