How does one put centos on a laptop? My understanding that laptops no longer come with optical drives. Booting from an install disk would be difficult.>From https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops :Preparation tasks Repartition your harddisk Backup your Master Boot Record (MBR) Modifying your bootloader My understanding is that most laptops have at most one harddisk. Can it really be unmounted for partitioning? -- Michael hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu "Sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number, a haiku, a gang sign, a heiroglyph, and the blood of a virgin." -- someeecards
On 3/16/2017 7:20 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:> How does one put centos on a laptop? > My understanding that laptops no longer come with optical drives. > Booting from an install disk would be difficult. >> From https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops : > Preparation tasks > Repartition your harddisk > Backup your Master Boot Record (MBR) > Modifying your bootloader > > My understanding is that most laptops have at most one harddisk. > Can it really be unmounted for partitioning?DD the CentOS ISO onto a USB stick. boot from USB, format HD with anaconda, install as desired, done. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz
On 03/16/2017 10:20 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:> How does one put centos on a laptop? > My understanding that laptops no longer come with optical drives. > Booting from an install disk would be difficult. > From https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops : > Preparation tasks > Repartition your harddisk > Backup your Master Boot Record (MBR) > Modifying your bootloader > > My understanding is that most laptops have at most one harddisk. > Can it really be unmounted for partitioning? >Not true. Last year I got an HP Envy 17 (and it's still being sold) and it has a DVD r+w. This can't be the only laptop being sold with an optical drive. Also, a couple months ago I put a "Live USB" (Fedora) Linux distro on a USB stick, booted it, and it came up and worked fine.
On 3/16/2017 8:20 PM, ken wrote:> Not true. Last year I got an HP Envy 17 (and it's still being sold) > and it has a DVD r+w. This can't be the only laptop being sold with > an optical drive.the majority of newer laptops are going for a slimline ultralight design emphasizing their primary design as being portable. 17" laptops are not that portable or convenient to setup anywhere but on a large clear table. optical disk is rapidly going the way of the floppy disk, obsolete. when even a DVD-Rom has no more than 4GB on it, while a thumbnail sized USB stick can be 64GB or larger, and is faster (at least on USB3)... -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz
On Thu, 2017-03-16 at 21:20 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:> How does one put centos on a laptop? > My understanding that laptops no longer come with optical drives.Some do, some don't. They all come with USB ports though. https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey P.
I have a DVD R/W drive that plugs into a USB port, but I always copy the ISO image to a USB memory stick and it works just fine. You may have to fiddle with BIOS to boot to an external USB device, but I have never had a problem. I have Fedora 24 and 25, as well as CentOS 6.X and 7.X on USB sticks so I can test hardware in a store and do installs. On 03/16/2017 11:20 PM, ken wrote:> On 03/16/2017 10:20 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: >> How does one put centos on a laptop? >> My understanding that laptops no longer come with optical drives. >> Booting from an install disk would be difficult. >> From https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops : >> Preparation tasks >> Repartition your harddisk >> Backup your Master Boot Record (MBR) >> Modifying your bootloader >> >> My understanding is that most laptops have at most one harddisk. >> Can it really be unmounted for partitioning? >> > Not true. Last year I got an HP Envy 17 (and it's still being sold) > and it has a DVD r+w. This can't be the only laptop being sold with > an optical drive. > > Also, a couple months ago I put a "Live USB" (Fedora) Linux distro on > a USB stick, booted it, and it came up and worked fine. > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-- ********************************************************* David P. Both, RHCE Millennium Technology Consulting LLC Raleigh, NC, USA 919-389-8678 dboth at millennium-technology.com www.millennium-technology.com www.databook.bz - Home of the DataBook for Linux DataBook is a Registered Trademark of David Both ********************************************************* This communication may be unlawfully collected and stored by the National Security Agency (NSA) in secret. The parties to this email do not consent to the retrieving or storing of this communication and any related metadata, as well as printing, copying, re-transmitting, disseminating, or otherwise using it. If you believe you have received this communication in error, please delete it immediately.
On Thu, 16 Mar 2017, John R Pierce wrote:> DD the CentOS ISO onto a USB stick. boot from USB, format HD with anaconda, > install as desired, done.Thanks. More or less the answer I was hoping for. My recollection had been that even when possible, booting from USB involved black magic. This helped: Pete Biggs <pete at biggs.org.uk>> Some do, some don't. They all come with USB ports though. > > https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkeyI have a bunch of SD cards and a interface. This should work: download CentOS iso dd it to an SD card through USB interface (as the entire volume, not to a file) plug in SD card to USB port on laptop turn on laptop hit <escape>/<delete>/<F666>/<whatever> to get to BIOS tell BIOS to boot from USB follow instructions Correct? Will it still work if it has UEFI? -- Michael hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "SCSI is NOT magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why it is necessary to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain now and then." -- John Woods> > > >-- Michael hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu "Sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number, a haiku, a gang sign, a heiroglyph, and the blood of a virgin." -- someeecards