[CentOS] Hard disk installation

Mon Jul 11 23:24:37 UTC 2011
Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com>

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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