CentOS - Dec 2005 - Installing CentOS via HTTP

When, after starting the install, you get a list of places for the 
distribution, listing things like:

CDrom, NFS, FTP, HTTP, Local hard drive

What is expected on the HTTP url?  The ISO images?

Help please, as the system I am installing on, boots off of CDrom, 
but then the CDrom seems to be so old (Toshiba NW24XCD), that there 
is no Linux driver for it in the base install.  And I cannot figure 
out how to get it to read from the CD, but I DO have LAN access....

To do a HTTP install you need a mounted ISO image.  What we have set up
here is a yam repository to do all our updating plus installations.

http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/yam/

It works great for us and cuts down on internet traffic.  Our yam box
syncs off a centos mirror and we pull all our updates from the local
repository.

Hope this helps.


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From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
Behalf Of Robert Moskowitz
Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 9:18 AM
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Subject: [CentOS] Installing CentOS via HTTP

When, after starting the install, you get a list of places for the 
distribution, listing things like:

CDrom, NFS, FTP, HTTP, Local hard drive

What is expected on the HTTP url?  The ISO images?

Help please, as the system I am installing on, boots off of CDrom, 
but then the CDrom seems to be so old (Toshiba NW24XCD), that there 
is no Linux driver for it in the base install.  And I cannot figure 
out how to get it to read from the CD, but I DO have LAN access....


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Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> When, after starting the install, you get a list of places for the 
> distribution, listing things like:
> 
> CDrom, NFS, FTP, HTTP, Local hard drive
> 
> What is expected on the HTTP url?  The ISO images?
the full expanded tree is expected. You could use
for server : http://mirror.centos.org
for path  : centos/4/os/i386

( this is for a i386 install )


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