Timothy Murphy wrote:
you can dd the whole IMG to your stick, but its cleaner to collect such
images and reference them in syslinux.cfg.
To setup your stick to bootZZ
#syslinux -s /dev/sda (unmounted USB disk)
Thanks for the suggestion.
But would that be simpler than transferring
Mark Pryor wrote:
I'm trying to install CentOS-5.5 on my new HP
micro-server,
which has no CD drive.
If all you want to do is kick-off an install via USB stick, you want
http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5.5/os/x86_64/images/diskboot.img
and use syslinux/memdisk to boot it on a vfat
Timothy Murphy wrote:
I'm trying to install CentOS-5.5 on my new HP micro-server,
which has no CD drive.
I've set up cobbler and cobbler-web on my old server,
and can access cobbler-web from my laptop.
Just to end the story.
Having found the DVD ISO with the help of this newsgroup,
I
--- On Fri, 4/1/11, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote:
From: Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net
Subject: Re: [CentOS] cobbler installation of CentOS-5.5
To: centos@centos.org
Date: Friday, April 1, 2011, 5:46 PM
Timothy Murphy wrote:
I'm trying to install CentOS-5.5 on my new HP
On Monday 28 March 2011 16:37:33 Timothy Murphy wrote:
m.r...@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,
Phil Schaffner wrote:
However, when I go towww.centos.org and click on
Downloads=Mirrors=CentOS-5 ISOs=x86_64
Go to
Downloads / Mirrors / Mirror List
And look at the column headed Direct DVD Downloads.
Thanks, I do see that now.
However, it is far from obvious.
Also, for some reason
Tony Molloy wrote:
You could try your local mirror ;-)
ftp.heanet.ie:/pub/centos/5.5/isos/i386/CentOS-5.5-i386-bin-DVD.iso
I did find that later.
For some reason it is not given (no site in Ireland is given)
in the list of local mirrors which I get
if I follow the links in the title bar
I'm trying to install CentOS-5.5 on my new HP micro-server,
which has no CD drive.
I've set up cobbler and cobbler-web on my old server,
and can access cobbler-web from my laptop.
I have 3 queries about the installation.
1. Is there any advantage is using the 64-bit CentOS
rather than 32-bit?
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 03:49:21PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
I'm trying to install CentOS-5.5 on my new HP micro-server, which has
no CD drive.
I've set up cobbler and cobbler-web on my old server, and can access
cobbler-web from my laptop.
I have 3 queries about the installation.
Timothy Murphy wrote:
I'm trying to install CentOS-5.5 on my new HP micro-server,
which has no CD drive.
I've set up cobbler and cobbler-web on my old server,
and can access cobbler-web from my laptop.
I have 3 queries about the installation.
1. Is there any advantage is using the 64-bit
On 3/28/2011 9:49 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
I'm trying to install CentOS-5.5 on my new HP micro-server,
which has no CD drive.
I've set up cobbler and cobbler-web on my old server,
and can access cobbler-web from my laptop.
I have 3 queries about the installation.
1. Is there any
On 28/03/11 16:49, Timothy Murphy wrote:
I'm trying to install CentOS-5.5 on my new HP micro-server,
which has no CD drive.
I've set up cobbler and cobbler-web on my old server,
and can access cobbler-web from my laptop.
I have 3 queries about the installation.
1. Is there any
Am 28.03.2011 um 16:49 schrieb Timothy Murphy:
I'm trying to install CentOS-5.5 on my new HP micro-server,
which has no CD drive.
I've set up cobbler and cobbler-web on my old server,
and can access cobbler-web from my laptop.
I have 3 queries about the installation.
1. Is there any
m.r...@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
Ray Van Dolson wrote:
Why not use the netinstall ISO rather than download everything?
How exactly do I do this?
I guess I could install it on a USB stick,
and boot that on my new server.
Is that what you mean?
(There is no CD drive on the server.)
I can actually run Fedora-14 from a USB stick
Am 28.03.2011 um 17:37 schrieb Timothy Murphy:
m.r...@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
Les Mikesell wrote:
Cobbler is kind of overkill for a single install. If you can drop the CD
iso images under an NFS export, boot from USB and do an nfs install
you'll be done before you'd have cobbler set up.
I'm not sure what you mean by drop the CD iso images under NFS.
In any case, I'd
Am 28.03.2011 um 17:45 schrieb Timothy Murphy:
So I'll repeat my query, which as far as I can see no-one has
answered:
how do I use cobbler with 8 CD ISOs?
To be specific, what exactly do I cobbler import?
You don't.
You import the DVD(s).
On 3/28/2011 10:41 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Ray Van Dolson wrote:
Why not use the netinstall ISO rather than download everything?
How exactly do I do this?
I guess I could install it on a USB stick,
and boot that on my new server.
Is that what you mean?
(There is no CD drive on the
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 10:59:23AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
On 3/28/2011 10:41 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Ray Van Dolson wrote:
Why not use the netinstall ISO rather than download everything?
How exactly do I do this?
I guess I could install it on a USB stick,
and boot that on my
On 3/28/2011 10:45 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
Cobbler is kind of overkill for a single install. If you can drop the CD
iso images under an NFS export, boot from USB and do an nfs install
you'll be done before you'd have cobbler set up.
I'm not sure what you mean by drop
Sometimes the path of least resistance is best, spend $40 on a USB DVD and call
it a day.
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On 3/28/2011 11:13 AM, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
One _real_ quick way to join all your CD ISO's together is to use
fuse-unionfs on an existing Linux box. Tell it to union each of your
loopback mounted ISO mountpoints into a new mountpoint, then export
that via NFS to your installation client (or
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:23:49AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
On 3/28/2011 11:13 AM, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
One _real_ quick way to join all your CD ISO's together is to use
fuse-unionfs on an existing Linux box. Tell it to union each of your
loopback mounted ISO mountpoints into a new
On 03/28/2011 08:45 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
Cobbler is kind of overkill for a single install. If you can drop the CD
iso images under an NFS export, boot from USB and do an nfs install
you'll be done before you'd have cobbler set up.
I'm not sure what you mean by drop
Cobbler is rather complex to setup. If you want to pxeboot, you can still do
this much faster by setting up a tftp server, a dhcp server and exporting the
install tree via NFS or HTTP. I simply loop mount the ISO image and export
the mounted DVD via NFS. I use something similar to
On 3/28/2011 11:28 AM, Nataraj wrote:
Cobbler is rather complex to setup. If you want to pxeboot, you can
still do this much faster by setting up a tftp server, a dhcp server and
exporting the install tree via NFS or HTTP. I simply loop mount the ISO
image and export the mounted DVD via NFS.
Timothy Murphy wrote:
m.r...@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
Ray Van Dolson wrote:
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:23:49AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
On 3/28/2011 11:13 AM, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
One _real_ quick way to join all your CD ISO's together is to use
fuse-unionfs on an existing Linux box. Tell it to union each of your
loopback mounted ISO
At Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:37:33 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
wrote:
m.r...@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
At Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:41:23 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
wrote:
Ray Van Dolson wrote:
Why not use the netinstall ISO rather than download everything?
How exactly do I do this?
I guess I could install it on a USB stick,
and boot that on my new server.
Actually, since
On 28.3.2011 17:36, Rainer Duffner wrote:
Am 28.03.2011 um 16:49 schrieb Timothy Murphy:
But how exactly do I cobbler import these?
I see that for Fedora on my laptop I ran
sudo cobbler import --path=/mnt/dvd --name=F14-i386
Download the DVDs and import them.
Or import over the
Rainer Duffner wrote:
The DVD ISOs are available on my local mirror, so they should be
elsewhere, too.
Where is your local mirror?
As I said, I couldn't see them on any of the mirrors offered to me.
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On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote:
Rainer Duffner wrote:
The DVD ISOs are available on my local mirror, so they should be
elsewhere, too.
Where is your local mirror?
As I said, I couldn't see them on any of the mirrors offered to me.
--
Timothy
Timothy Murphy wrote:
Rainer Duffner wrote:
The DVD ISOs are available on my local mirror, so they should be
elsewhere, too.
Where is your local mirror?
As I said, I couldn't see them on any of the mirrors offered to me.
The kernel.org mirror system has servers in the EU and
Mark Tomandl wrote:
Where is your local mirror?
As I said, I couldn't see them on any of the mirrors offered to me.
The kernel.org mirror system has servers in the EU and has the DVDs.
From the link below choose your architecture, download and verify the
iso files, and you should be good
Timothy Murphy wrote on 03/28/2011 07:24 PM:
However, when I go towww.centos.org and click on
Downloads=Mirrors=CentOS-5 ISOs=x86_64
Go to
Downloads / Mirrors / Mirror List
And look at the column headed Direct DVD Downloads.
Phil
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