Hello, I have an external USB cdrom ; I have a machine which does not have a VGA card and not a standard IDE socket so you cannot connect a CDROM internally to it ; it has USB port; I want to install CentOS using an external USB cdrom on this machine, through the serial port.
Is there a way to do it ? I am quite desperate about it.
The motherboard DOES enable configuing the BIOS to boot from a USB device. Regards, IB
Ian Brown wrote:
Hello, I have an external USB cdrom ; I have a machine which does not have a VGA card and not a standard IDE socket so you cannot connect a CDROM internally to it ; it has USB port; I want to install CentOS using an external USB cdrom on this machine, through the serial port.
Is there a way to do it ? I am quite desperate about it.
The motherboard DOES enable configuing the BIOS to boot from a USB device.
If you set the USB device as bootable in the bios, it should just work. I have used a Sony USB DVD-RW drive to install CentOS on a few laptops and a few 1RU rackmount systems that did not come with integrated optical drives. When you say it lacks a VGA card, does that mean you have no video at all?
Cheers,
Thanks.
When you say it lacks a VGA card, does that mean you have no video at all?
It has no video,no regular keyboard, no PS/2 mouse port; all the communication is through the serial port. Regards, IB
On 4/3/06, Chris Mauritz chrism@imntv.com wrote:
Ian Brown wrote:
Hello, I have an external USB cdrom ; I have a machine which does not have a VGA card and not a standard IDE socket so you cannot connect a CDROM internally to it ; it has USB port; I want to install CentOS using an external USB cdrom on this machine, through the serial port.
Is there a way to do it ? I am quite desperate about it.
The motherboard DOES enable configuing the BIOS to boot from a USB device.
If you set the USB device as bootable in the bios, it should just work. I have used a Sony USB DVD-RW drive to install CentOS on a few laptops and a few 1RU rackmount systems that did not come with integrated optical drives. When you say it lacks a VGA card, does that mean you have no video at all?
Cheers,
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Ian Brown spake the following on 4/3/2006 11:37 PM:
Thanks.
When you say it lacks a VGA card, does that mean you have no video at all?
It has no video,no regular keyboard, no PS/2 mouse port; all the communication is through the serial port. Regards, IB
You have to add another option "headless" so anaconda doesn't waste time trying to find video hardware.
Hello, I have an external USB cdrom ; I have a machine which does not have a VGA card and not a standard IDE socket so you cannot connect a CDROM internally to it ; it has USB port; I want to install CentOS using an external USB cdrom on this machine, through the serial port.
Is there a way to do it ? I am quite desperate about it.
The motherboard DOES enable configuing the BIOS to boot from a USB device. Regards, IB
Try append console=ttyS0,38400,n8 For using serial port 0, and 38400 baud
Gerald
Thanks Gerald,
Try append console=ttyS0,38400,n8 For using serial port 0, and 38400 baud
I can only append it to the iso (as I don't have a keyboard attached). How should it be appended to the iso ? I know how to open the iso and change it; to be more accurate, I should add these parameters to the isolinux.cfg. But then, how to create the new iso with the new isolinux.cfg ? Is it but mkisofs ? and it case it is, with which parameters exactly ? Regards, IB
On 4/3/06, Gerald Waugh gwaugh@frontstreetnetworks.com wrote:
Hello, I have an external USB cdrom ; I have a machine which does not have a VGA card and not a standard IDE socket so you cannot connect a CDROM internally to it ; it has USB port; I want to install CentOS using an external USB cdrom on this machine, through the serial port.
Is there a way to do it ? I am quite desperate about it.
The motherboard DOES enable configuing the BIOS to boot from a USB device. Regards, IB
Try append console=ttyS0,38400,n8 For using serial port 0, and 38400 baud
Gerald
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
You wrote;
Try append console=ttyS0,38400,n8 For using serial port 0, and 38400 baud
I can only append it to the iso (as I don't have a keyboard attached). How should it be appended to the iso ? I know how to open the iso and change it; to be more accurate, I should add these parameters to the isolinux.cfg. But then, how to create the new iso with the new isolinux.cfg ? Is it but mkisofs ? and it case it is, with which parameters exactly ? Regards, IB
Yes, you put it in isolinux/isolinux.cfg Then create a new CD.
Download the ISO image to a Linux Box, and then run this script mkdir cd_image mount -o loop -t iso9660 Nu-CentOS-BQ-3.0.iso cd_image mkdir custom_cd cd cd_image cp -Rp * .discinfo ../custom_cd cd .. umount cd_image rmdir cd_image cd custom_cd
After you make all of your changes, now is the time to create an ISO image.
You need to have "mkisofs" installed to be able to do this
cd custom_cd mkisofs -o ../Nu-CentOS-BQ-3.0.iso \ -V 'BQ-CentOS Install v3.0' \ -b isolinux/isolinux.bin \ -c isolinux/boot.cat \ -no-emul-boot \ -boot-load-size 4 \ -boot-info-table \ -R -J -T .
That's it, it should create your new ISO. From there, just burn it to a CD!
Gerald
Excuse me, I copied that last email's directions from http://www.nuonce.net/bq-cd.php and it's very confusing. It is using BlueQuartz GUI for CentOS.
All you wanted was how to run mkisofs. So this is how I do it and it seems to work.
Assuming you copied the cd contents to "custom_cd" directory make sure .discinfo gets copied....
cd custom_cd change isolinux/isolinux.cfg adding console=ttyS0,38400,n8 to append statement
mkisofs -P CentOS \ -b isolinux/isolinux.bin \ -c isolinux/boot.cat \ -no-emul-boot \ -boot-load-size 4 \ -boot-info-table \ -r -J -T -o ../custom_cd.iso .
Custom_cd.iso is the name of the new ISO burn it to a CD!
HTH Gerald
On Tuesday 04 April 2006 07:19, Gerald Waugh wrote:
Yes, you put it in isolinux/isolinux.cfg Then create a new CD.
This is useful information; I have fifteen headless boxes of two types (one is an older AMD K6/2 which would need the i586 install option, and the other is a super industrial box made by MiraPoint; the Mirapoint rack mounts have built-in UPS's and only a serial console accessible from the outside of the case, even though they are built on an Intel server board that have embedded VGA, the VGA connector is in such a location that the case has to be halfway disassembled to get to it.)
The AMD K6/2 boxes were Agilent ATMprobes; they do not have a keyboard port on the backpanel at all, and use the serial port for everything. They unfortunately don't have a USB port, either.
Hmm, a picture is worth a thousand words; I'll post a set of pics sometime today of these boxes to my website, and then send a link to the list.
On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 10:12 -0500, Gerald Waugh wrote:
Lamar Owen wrote;
This is useful information; I have fifteen headless boxes of two types (one is an older AMD K6/2 which would need the i586 install option,
We have some K6-2 boxes, sure would be interested in a howto for a i586 option???
Gerald
instead of
linux your_options_here
use
i586 your_options_here
(that is w/ the 4.3 version of CentOS ... with versions of CentOS-4 before 4.3 ... and with CentOS-3 ... nothing special is required to install on i586)
Hi Gerald,
B I N G O !!!
Works like a charm ! On the first time !!
Thanks a lot for you help; I wish that other mailing list were so helpful as this is; Tnanks again IB
On 4/4/06, Gerald Waugh gwaugh@frontstreetnetworks.com wrote:
You wrote;
Try append console=ttyS0,38400,n8 For using serial port 0, and 38400 baud
I can only append it to the iso (as I don't have a keyboard attached). How should it be appended to the iso ? I know how to open the iso and change it; to be more accurate, I should add these parameters to the isolinux.cfg. But then, how to create the new iso with the new isolinux.cfg ? Is it but mkisofs ? and it case it is, with which parameters exactly ? Regards, IB
Yes, you put it in isolinux/isolinux.cfg Then create a new CD.
Download the ISO image to a Linux Box, and then run this script mkdir cd_image mount -o loop -t iso9660 Nu-CentOS-BQ-3.0.iso cd_image mkdir custom_cd cd cd_image cp -Rp * .discinfo ../custom_cd cd .. umount cd_image rmdir cd_image cd custom_cd
After you make all of your changes, now is the time to create an ISO image.
You need to have "mkisofs" installed to be able to do this
cd custom_cd mkisofs -o ../Nu-CentOS-BQ-3.0.iso \ -V 'BQ-CentOS Install v3.0' \ -b isolinux/isolinux.bin \ -c isolinux/boot.cat \ -no-emul-boot \ -boot-load-size 4 \ -boot-info-table \ -R -J -T .
That's it, it should create your new ISO. From there, just burn it to a CD!
Gerald
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 09:41:42AM +0300, Ian Brown wrote:
Thanks Gerald,
Try append console=ttyS0,38400,n8 For using serial port 0, and 38400 baud
I can only append it to the iso (as I don't have a keyboard attached). How should it be appended to the iso ? I know how to open the iso and change it; to be more accurate, I should add these parameters to the isolinux.cfg. But then, how to create the new iso with the new isolinux.cfg ? Is it but mkisofs ? and it case it is, with which parameters exactly ?
Are you sure the BIOS of that machine doesn't have a Console Redirection option ?
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Thanks, I will check it IB
On 4/4/06, Rodrigo Barbosa rodrigob@suespammers.org wrote:
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On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 09:41:42AM +0300, Ian Brown wrote:
Thanks Gerald,
Try append console=ttyS0,38400,n8 For using serial port 0, and 38400 baud
I can only append it to the iso (as I don't have a keyboard attached). How should it be appended to the iso ? I know how to open the iso and change it; to be more accurate, I should add these parameters to the isolinux.cfg. But then, how to create the new iso with the new isolinux.cfg ? Is it but mkisofs ? and it case it is, with which parameters exactly ?
Are you sure the BIOS of that machine doesn't have a Console Redirection option ?
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Rodrigo Barbosa rodrigob@suespammers.org "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns)
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