[CentOS] cobbler installation of CentOS-5.5
Timothy Murphy
gayleard at eircom.net
Mon Mar 28 15:37:33 UTC 2011
m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>> 2. The CentOS OS seems to be available in 7 or 8 CDs.
>> (I tried downloading the DVD ISO with ktorrent,
>> but this was a complete failure.
>> It started OK, but then created literally thousands of links
>> to one file, which brought my server down,
>> and left it in a state which was quite hard to clean up.)
>
> Dunno. Last time I brought down the DVD iso, I had no trouble just doing a
> straight d/l, no torrent.
Where did you find the DVD ISO?
When I follow the download instructions at <http://www.centos.org/>
I am only offered "local", ie west european, mirrors,
and none of those I looked at had the DVD ISO;
all of them just had 8 CD ISOs.
> Mount the CD isos using loopback (mount -o loop), and copy.
> <snip>
I didn't follow this.
Do you mean mount each of the 8 CDs using loopback?
And what exactly am I meant to copy?
I need to indicate where "cobbler import" should look, I assume.
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Timothy Murphy
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