[CentOS] Installing from CD

[Steve Clark]

On 07/12/2011 09:59 AM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote:
> centos-bounces at centos.org wrote:
>
>> this machine can boot only from a ... HardDrive.  USB is not an
> option.
>
> What I did: Move said hard drive to a system that has a DVD, and install
> there.
> I had to "tweak a few things" because of how the install process worked,
> and the differences in hardware between this DVD-capable system and my
> target systems, but, after said futzing, I had a HD that would boot my
> target systems, and I could dupe the drive for all the product we make.
>
> After that, the drive is a "programmable part", and the code we run is
> an application we update in the field...
> ...if you're a server environment, your hurdles will not be the same as
> mine.
>
>
> Insert spiffy .sig here:
> Life is complex: it has both real and imaginary parts.
> Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the
> moments that take our breath away.
>
>
With an HP DL140 we open the cover and temporarily plug in a  standard atapi 5.25 DVD drive in place of the CD drive.

-- 
Stephen Clark
*NetWolves*
Sr. Software Engineer III
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