On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 17:18 +0100, Mário Gamito wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry for the newbie question, I've been searching the CentOS site and
> googled, but I couldn't find an answer (probably my bad).
>
> I want to install CentOS 4.5, but I'm having troubles with my CD reader.
>
> How can I install it from an FTP server ?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Warm Regards
You need to be able to boot to the installer somehow. If you have a
working Linux with GRUB the following should work.
Download initrd.img and vmlinuz from your favorite mirror, e.g.
http://mirror.linux.duke.edu/pub/centos/4.5/os/i386/isolinux/
Put them in /boot and rename to initrd-c4.img and vmlinuz-c4
respectively. Add the following stanza to /boot/grub/grub.conf (or
possibly menu.lst depending on distro).
title CentOS 4 Installer
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-c4 ro ramdisk=8192
initrd /initrd-c4.img
This assumes a boot partition /dev/hda1 (or sda1). Adjust according to
your setup. If no boot partition the paths above must be prefixed by
"/boot".
Boot to the installer and provide the address for the FTP (or HTTP)
server and the directory containing the os/<arch> tree.
Another approach would be to use bootable USB media for the installer
image:
http://mirror.linux.duke.edu/pub/centos/4.5/os/i386/images/diskboot.img
Could also set up a PXE server.
Phil
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