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 tr
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 Fri, 4/1/11, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> From: Timothy Murphy
> 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
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 i
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
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, fo
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
>
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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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 b
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 h
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 2:47 PM, 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.
>
> --
> Timothy Murphy
>
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 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 impor
At Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:41:23 +0100 CentOS mailing list
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 you have
At Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:37:33 +0100 CentOS mailing list
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 thous
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
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 ser
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 N
> 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 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 b
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
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
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 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
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 bo
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
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).
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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
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 brought
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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