<div>Charles,</div><div><br></div>This is a bare metal install on a new system with 2 mirrored boot drives and 2 mirrored 1TB storage drives off a 3Ware controller. Plenty of room, but no previous OS installed, I also have a DVD drive in the system, I just don't know what other files.<div>
<br></div><div>I can see why lots of folks like Ubuntu, at least last time I installed Ubuntu server 8.4(?) it booted off the DVD and installed w/o any problems. Sure seems easier to a noob like me!<br><br></div><div>Greg</div>
<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Charles Shapiro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hooterpincher@gmail.com">hooterpincher@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Wrassling with just that problemo here only with RHEL 6.0 The machine<br>
I want to install it on has only a CDROM drive; the install medium is<br>
a DVD containing =~ 3.2 gb of stuff.<br>
<br>
You can theoretically put the ISO file on your hard drive, boot from<br>
the boot.iso image, and tell it the device/directory where the ISO<br>
file is. On Rhel 6, alas, that doesn't workee if the current OS is<br>
using LVM. You might luck out with CentOS though, depending on what<br>
kind of hard drive space is available on your box currently.<br>
<br>
Your other option is to make a bootable USB stick; the RH instructions<br>
claim that dd(1) should be sufficient for that, but so far that's not<br>
actually creating a bootable stick here. I also tried explicity<br>
creating a partition with fdisk(8), then setting its bootable flag<br>
with parted(8) and dd(1) ing the iso file to that -- no joy there. I'm<br>
currently digging into syslinux (<br>
<a href="http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/The_Syslinux_Project" target="_blank">http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/The_Syslinux_Project</a> ) to see<br>
if that'll help with my USB trouble.<br>
<br>
<br>
-- CHS<br>
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On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Greg Clifton <<a href="mailto:gccfof5@gmail.com">gccfof5@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> OK, you RH/Fedora/Centos mavens, so this is my first attempt at installing<br>
> CentOS of any flavor. I downloaded the boot ISO from the GT mirror and<br>
> burned it to CD. Then booted the system and commenced with the install.<br>
> During the install it asks what type of media has the packages. So when I<br>
> tell it CD, the installer spits out the boot CD and says no CD with packages<br>
> found. Obviously, the "boot.iso" is exactly that and little or nothing else.<br>
> The question is, not having a handy internet connection from this machine to<br>
> the outside world, what do I need to download/burn to install the OS. Do I<br>
> grab the stage2.img and burn it or are there more/other files required?<br>
> Thanks,<br>
> Greg Clifton<br>
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