Les Mikesell wrote: >>> I assume that the lack of a CD drive on the HP micro-server >>> is a sign of things to come, >>> so I would hope there would be an official method of installing CentOS >>> on such a machine. >>> >> >> I think what Les suggested is one official supported method as outlined >> in the Installation Guide. How "official" do you want it ? > > Here's the prompt you'll see and what it means: > > http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html- single/Installation_Guide/index.html#s1-begininstall-nfs-x86
I see no mention there of the method you suggested, which was --------------------------- I don't get it. That's the whole point of the boot.img, which is made to simply dd onto a usb device. And having booted from that, there is nothing different than any other way of booting into the installer except that you have to tell it where the install media is. --------------------------- Actually, I can't find "boot.img" on the DVD: [tim@helen ~]$ cd /mnt/dvd [tim@helen dvd]$ sudo find . -name disk.img -print [tim@helen dvd]$ I see images/bootdisk.img . Is that what you meant? In any case, I tried dd-ing this to /dev/sdb (the USB stick). [tim@helen dvd]$ sudo cp images/diskboot.img /tmp [tim@helen dvd]$ cd /tmp [tim@helen tmp]$ sudo dd if=diskboot.img of=/dev/sdb 24576+0 records in 24576+0 records out 12582912 bytes (13 MB) copied, 0.766341 seconds, 16.4 MB/s But when I re-booted my laptop with the USB stick in (having made sure it was top of the boot order in the Bios) it failed to start. I re-formatted the USB stick under Windows, and tried dd-ing diskboot.img to /dev/sdb1 but the outcome was the same. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
