CentOS - Mar 2005 - Boot diskette for install CD

(New to CentOS and just joined the list.)

Is there a boot diskette image for the install CD? I want to install
CentOS in a classroom that does not have CD boot enabled. I couldn''t
find one on the install CD, although it did have a USB flash drive boot
image. I''m pretty sure that the machines in the classroom are too old
to
be able to boot from USB flash drives. (I will check on this.)

I tried  last night to boot the install CD using a Smart Boot Manager
diskette, but at school it didn''t see the CD at all. When I tested at
home, SBM saw my DVD/CD drive just fine. ????

Any suggestions?

-mj-

On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 13:52 -0700, Mark Jarvis wrote:
> I tried  last night to boot the install CD using a Smart Boot Manager
> diskette, but at school it didn''t see the CD at all. When I tested
at
> home, SBM saw my DVD/CD drive just fine. ????
While not exactly what you are looking for....
I mounted  the CD on somemachine and copied contents of first CD into a
somedirectory. Thereafter I copied the RPMS directory from the rest of
CD''s into the RPMS subdirectory of somedirectory. Then exported the
somedirectory by editing the /etc/exports file and re-starting service
NFS.
Target machines were booted from USB-CDROM (for which no drivers were
needed only enabled CDBoot in bios) and at start prompt gave command
"linux askmethod" Choose install from NFS and gave somemachineIP and
somedirectory when asked for these.
HTH

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Sudev Barar
Learning Linux