[ale] CentOS 5.6 64Bit Install

[Charles Shapiro]

Wrassling with just that problemo here only with RHEL 6.0  The machine
I want to install it on has only a CDROM drive; the install medium is
a DVD containing =~ 3.2 gb of stuff.

You can theoretically put the ISO file on your hard drive, boot from
the boot.iso image, and tell it the device/directory where the ISO
file is. On Rhel 6, alas, that doesn't workee if the current OS is
using LVM.  You might luck out with CentOS though, depending on what
kind of hard drive space is available on your box currently.

Your other option is to make a bootable USB stick; the RH instructions
claim that dd(1) should be sufficient for that, but so far that's not
actually creating a bootable stick here. I also tried explicity
creating a partition with fdisk(8), then setting its bootable flag
with parted(8) and dd(1) ing the iso file to that -- no joy there. I'm
currently digging into syslinux (
http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/The_Syslinux_Project ) to see
if that'll help with my USB trouble.


-- CHS

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Greg Clifton <gccfof5 at gmail.com> wrote:
> OK, you RH/Fedora/Centos mavens, so this is my first attempt at installing
> CentOS of any flavor.  I downloaded the boot ISO from the GT mirror and
> burned it to CD. Then booted the system and commenced with the install.
> During the install it asks what type of media has the packages. So when I
> tell it CD, the installer spits out the boot CD and says no CD with packages
> found. Obviously, the "boot.iso" is exactly that and little or nothing else.
> The question is, not having a handy internet connection from this machine to
> the outside world, what do I need to download/burn to install the OS. Do I
> grab the stage2.img and burn it or are there more/other files required?
> Thanks,
> Greg Clifton
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