I agree with above wholeheartedly. I was trying to go with the flow of dude's idea, but that 's a valid point about partitioning. I don't even know if dd'ing to a different partition on a drive you weren't trying to format would work. a 5 dollar usb stick should do. Maybe 10 dollars if you have to go to Fred Meyers to get it.
On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 12:51 AM, Tom <tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would advise you against trying to install Linux to drive you just > booted from - the things will likely go wrong as soon as the installer > start partitioning the drive. > While you could pre-partition the drive for the install before booting > from it - avoiding partitioning - you could still run into trouble when > making the partitions bootable. > Put the ISO on USB stick, you will save yourself a lot of time and > trouble. Here is how: > https://www.linuxunit.com/how-to-create-bootable-usb-key-centos7/ > Alternatively you could setup boot server and install from that via PXE > - If you have spare PC and do not mind setting up DHCP, tftp, NFS > server and setting up PXE boot image. Although that would probably take > longer to setup than driving to the nearest store for a USB stick. The > advantage, you could automate it and use the setup to install a lot of > PCs pretty quickly. > Best luck, Tomas > On Thu, 2017-03-30 at 23:21 -0700, Nat Taylor wrote: > > Install from usb key? > > https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey > > might fit on an 8gb, def a 16gb > > > > Or maybe just dd the install file onto your partition and pretend its > > a usb > > key and tell your bios to boot from that partition? > > > > dd if=CentOS-6.5-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso of=/dev/sdb1 > > > > note that I put the 1 on the end of /dev/sdb , as you are dd'ing to > > the > > partition, not the drive. Worth a try. make sure you get that > > partition > > right, so you don't wipe stuff out. > > > > On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 10:59 PM, Michael Robinson < > > mich...@robinson-west.com> wrote: > > > > > The CentOS 7 iso is 7.8 gigs. My DVD-R media tops out at about > > > half that. The server I'm trying to upgrade would have to use > > > an external DVD drive in order to upgrade from a DVD. > > > > > > I am trying to upgrade from CentOS 6.8 to CentOS 7.3. I want > > > to install CentOS 7.3 on a newly installed and unused 500 gig SSD. > > > So far, I have created a 10G ext2 partition at the beginning of the > > > new SSD and I have copied the CentOS 7.3 iso's contents to it. I > > > used a loop mount to mount the iso and then cp -av. I am trying > > > to figure out how to install from a local hard drive instead of > > > a DVD disk. > > > > > > I have Grub 1 in CentOS 6.8, is there a way to trigger the > > > installer > > > from my existing Grub on the second SSD? Can I seamlessly upgrade > > > the old CentOS 6.8 to use Grub 2 instead of Grub 1? > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > PLUG mailing list > > > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
