CentOS - Apr 2011 - CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

According to <http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOSLiveCD5.5>
"There is a "Network Install" option on the Live CD 
that is the same as our CentOS-5.5-i386-netinstall ISO".

I've looked quite carefully at my CentOS-5.5 Live CD (on a USB stick),
and I don't see a Network Install option anywhere.

Could some kind soul explain where it can be found, please.


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Timothy Murphy  
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On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net>
wrote:
> According to
<http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOSLiveCD5.5>
> "There is a "Network Install" option on the Live CD
> that is the same as our CentOS-5.5-i386-netinstall ISO".
>
> I've looked quite carefully at my CentOS-5.5 Live CD (on a USB stick),
> and I don't see a Network Install option anywhere.
>
> Could some kind soul explain where it can be found, please.
Try hitting the space bar during the Automatic boot countdown screen.
That should give you the boot menu with the option to do the network
install.

Also note that the next version of the LiveCD won't have this option:

http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOSLiveCD5.6



-- 
William Hooper

On Friday, April 08, 2011 02:22:47 PM Timothy Murphy
wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
> > USB disks _can_ have partitions (obviously, since you can stick about
> > any drive into a usb adapter), 
> The instructions in <http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-
> US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Installation_Guide/
> certainly advise making a partition /dev/sdb1
> with partition type b and running mkdosfs on it.
Have you successfully booted with this USB stick before?  Some USB sticks
aren't bootable.

William Hooper wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard at
eircom.net> wrote:
>> Phil Schaffner wrote:
<snip>
> The issues you saw with grub being installed on the USB stick instead of
the HDD are a bigger concern in my book.  I wonder if you you have
better luck installing GRUB on the HDD MBR, booting from the HDD and
using grub to load the kernel and initrd off the USB stick.

What you have to do is tell it no bootloader, then before you reboot at
the end of the install, use <f-2> or whatever to get to another screen,
then... lessee, I forget if it's mounted the install as /mnt/sysimage or
not, but mount your /boot on the h/d, chroot, edit /boot/grub/device map
so it shows HD 0,0, and then grub-install /dev/sdb (or whatever). Then
when you reboot, you should be ok; if not, linux rescue, and do all that.

         mark, who wishes upstream would *offer* the option of other than
                  /dev/sda or track 1 of this drive....

On Friday, April 08, 2011 04:42:59 PM Les Mikesell
wrote:
> Did anyone tell them how easy an nfs install is?
That makes the assumption that there is an nfs server available.  We certainly
don't do nfs here.

On Friday, April 08, 2011 05:43:03 PM Les Mikesell
wrote:
> On 4/8/2011 4:26 PM, Lamar Owen wrote:
> > That makes the assumption that there is an nfs server available.  We
certainly don't do nfs here.
> 
> If this isn't your first install, you are a couple of commands away
from
> having one.  Faster/easier than burning yet another iso or 7.
That makes the assumption I haven't done/don't do http installs......
nfs isn't the only netinstall method.  We just don't do nfs.