On 7.4.2011 14:47, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: > >>> If anyone can suggest a simpler way of installing CentOS >>> on a machine without a CD drive I should be interested to hear. >>> >> >> I thought I did that a long time ago. Put the small boot.img file that is >> in the /images on the CD or DVD isos on a USB drive (you can use a >> loopback mount to get it if you can't find a place to download it >> separately), boot from it, pick nfs as the install method, and point it to >> the directory containing the CD >> iso images that you have under an NFS export on another box. ... > But when I said "simple" I really meant > "following official methods and instructions given by Them, > the CentOS powers-that-be". > > 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 ? I prefer PXE, but thats also not "simple", and not possible in every environment, colocations for instance. -- Kind Regards, Markus Falb
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