--- On Fri, 4/1/11, Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net> wrote: > From: Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] cobbler installation of CentOS-5.5 > To: centos at centos.org > Date: Friday, April 1, 2011, 5:46 PM > Timothy Murphy wrote: > > > I'm trying to install CentOS-5.5 on my new HP > micro-server, > > which has no CD drive. > > > > I've set up cobbler and cobbler-web on my old server, > > and can access cobbler-web from my laptop. > > Just to end the story. > Having found the DVD ISO with the help of this newsgroup, > I installed CentOS-5.5 on my HP micro-server > using cobbler, with no trouble at all. > > But I was surprised to find that this had deleted the > partitioning > which I had carefully installed with Fedora Live CD on a > USB stick, > and assigned the whole disk to LVM. > > I looked on the web to see how I could modify ks.cfg > to make a partition of my own choice, > but decided after a brief study that life is too short > to spend on the intricacies of kickstart. > > So I have given up cobbler, and will try the netinstall CD > next, > installing it on a USB stick. > If that doesn't work I shall put the CentOS Live CD on a > stick, > and install that on the hard disk. If all you want to do is kick-off an install via USB stick, you want http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5.5/os/x86_64/images/diskboot.img and use syslinux/memdisk to boot it on a vfat partition ------------- syslinux.cfg ------------ label c564 kernel memdisk append initrd=/diskboot.img --------- snip -------- you can dd the whole IMG to your stick, but its cleaner to collect such images and reference them in syslinux.cfg. To setup your stick to boot #syslinux -s /dev/sda (unmounted USB disk) -- Mark