Hello Group,
I am trying to build one VMware VM for 5.7 centos. However, there are two DVDs. And all vms I have build so far are confined in one iso.
How could I build complete 5.7 centos VM with two different Centos DVDs.
I am sure somebody out there must have built one such OS.
Please guild.
thanks.
nagrik
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Vinay Nagrik vnagrik@gmail.com wrote:
Hello Group,
I am trying to build one VMware VM for 5.7 centos. However, there are two DVDs. And all vms I have build so far are confined in one iso.
How could I build complete 5.7 centos VM with two different Centos DVDs.
I am sure somebody out there must have built one such OS.
Please guild. thanks. nagrik
Run the installer from DVD 1, select the packages you want, and if it asks you for DVD 2, change the virtual cd drive to point to the DVD 2 iso file.
Since you're building a VM, just try it out and see what happens. That is the point of using VMs -- it is very easy to try things out.
❧ Brian Mathis
On 10.4.2012 19:32, Brian Mathis wrote:
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Vinay Nagrik vnagrik@gmail.com wrote:
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I am trying to build one VMware VM for 5.7 centos. However, there are two DVDs. And all vms I have build so far are confined in one iso.
How could I build complete 5.7 centos VM with two different Centos DVDs.
I am sure somebody out there must have built one such OS.
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Run the installer from DVD 1, select the packages you want, and if it asks you for DVD 2, change the virtual cd drive to point to the DVD 2 iso file.
Or, another possibility, you dont install the stuff from DVD2 AFAIK (but not quite sure) there are only openoffice language packs. One could decide that they are not necessary, or installable at a later time.
Op 10-04-12 18:36, Vinay Nagrik schreef:
Hello Group,
I am trying to build one VMware VM for 5.7 centos. However, there are two DVDs. And all vms I have build so far are confined in one iso.
How could I build complete 5.7 centos VM with two different Centos DVDs.
I am sure somebody out there must have built one such OS.
Please guild.
thanks.
nagrik _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
I do it this way in virtualbox.
When the installer asks for the next disk i "eject" the first from the VM and load the second.
Michel
Vinay Nagrik wrote on 04/10/2012 12:36 PM:
How could I build complete 5.7 centos VM with two different Centos DVDs.
In addition to other viable suggestions, you can also combine the two images into one.
http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/CDtoDVDMedia
Phil
On 04/11/2012 09:19 AM, Phil Schaffner wrote:
Vinay Nagrik wrote on 04/10/2012 12:36 PM:
How could I build complete 5.7 centos VM with two different Centos DVDs.
In addition to other viable suggestions, you can also combine the two images into one.
In reality, having a local repository and using the net-install ISO is the way to do installs if you are doing many repeatable installs anyway.
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
On 04/11/2012 09:19 AM, Phil Schaffner wrote:
Vinay Nagrik wrote on 04/10/2012 12:36 PM:
How could I build complete 5.7 centos VM with two different Centos DVDs.
In addition to other viable suggestions, you can also combine the two images into one.
In reality, having a local repository and using the net-install ISO is the way to do installs if you are doing many repeatable installs anyway.
With VMware ESXi at least, it is pretty simple to use iso image files directly. Just download to a directory under an NFS export, mount the NFS export into the ESXi server, then when setting up the virtual machine, connect the CD/DVD drive to a 'Datastore ISO File' that you can browse to and check the 'connect at power on' box. If you copy out the /images directory from the iso to the containing directory you can use the same files as the target for NFS installs from the net-install iso when installing on physical hardware.
On Wednesday, April 11, 2012 10:19:54 AM Phil Schaffner wrote:
In addition to other viable suggestions, you can also combine the two images into one.
I have used this to create 'DL' media for both 5.8 and 6.2; for 6.2 I then followed the USBKeyInstall HOWTO and built an 8GB installation USB stick for physical boxes (I'm stuck on old VMware ESX 3.5 (latest patches, but no upgrades) so use 5.8 there).
Works very well indeed.
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