Re: [CentOS] Installing from CD

2011-07-13 Thread John R Pierce
On 07/13/11 8:30 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > I haven't tried it with a cd/dvd drive, but you can get inexpensive USB > cables with combo adapters for IDE (both full and laptop size) and sata > with corresponding power connectors that are very handy to have around > for temporary hookups. afaik, thos

Re: [CentOS] Installing from CD

2011-07-13 Thread Les Mikesell
On 7/13/2011 12:15 PM, Keith Roberts wrote: > >> I haven't tried it with a cd/dvd drive, but you can get inexpensive USB >> cables with combo adapters for IDE (both full and laptop size) and sata >> with corresponding power connectors that are very handy to have around >> for temporary hookups. > >

Re: [CentOS] Installing from CD

2011-07-13 Thread Keith Roberts
On Wed, 13 Jul 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: > To: centos@centos.org > From: Les Mikesell > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Installing from CD > > On 7/13/2011 10:01 AM, Keith Roberts wrote: >> >>>> >>> Yeah, but it is really hard to find atapi style laptop drives,

Re: [CentOS] Installing from CD

2011-07-13 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Les Mikesell wrote: > On 7/13/2011 10:01 AM, Keith Roberts wrote: >>> Yeah, but it is really hard to find atapi style laptop drives, everything >>> has gone to sata. >> Try the older latops, you might even pick up a bare drive on >> ebay. >> > > I haven't tried it with a cd/dvd drive, but you can

Re: [CentOS] Installing from CD

2011-07-13 Thread Les Mikesell
On 7/13/2011 10:01 AM, Keith Roberts wrote: > >>> >> Yeah, but it is really hard to find atapi style laptop drives, everything >> has gone to sata. > > Try the older latops, you might even pick up a bare drive on > ebay. > I haven't tried it with a cd/dvd drive, but you can get inexpensive USB ca

Re: [CentOS] Installing from CD

2011-07-13 Thread Craig White
On Jul 12, 2011, at 9:49 PM, Ron Blizzard wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Craig White wrote: >> On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 13:44 -0700, david wrote: >>> Folks >>> >>> The machine I'm trying to load does not have a DVD reader, but only a >>> CD reader. >>> >>> Are the multiple CD images of

Re: [CentOS] Installing from CD

2011-07-13 Thread Keith Roberts
On Wed, 13 Jul 2011, Steve Clark wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list > From: Steve Clark > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Installing from CD > > On 07/13/2011 12:46 AM, Ron Blizzard wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 2:54 PM, John R Pierce >> wrote: >> > On 0

Re: [CentOS] Installing from CD

2011-07-13 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Steve Clark wrote: > On 07/13/2011 12:46 AM, Ron Blizzard wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 2:54 PM, John R Pierce wrote: >>> On 07/12/11 11:53 AM, Ron Blizzard wrote: On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Steve Clark wrote: >> With an HP DL140 we open the cover and temporarily plug

Re: [CentOS] Installing from CD

2011-07-13 Thread Steve Clark
On 07/13/2011 12:46 AM, Ron Blizzard wrote: On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 2:54 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 07/12/11 11:53 AM, Ron Blizzard wrote: On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Steve Clarkwrote: With an HP DL140 we open the cover and temporarily plug in a standard atapi 5.25 DVD drive

Re: [CentOS] Installing from CD

2011-07-12 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Craig White wrote: > On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 13:44 -0700, david wrote: >> Folks >> >> The machine I'm trying to load does not have a DVD reader, but only a >> CD reader. >> >> Are the multiple CD images of CENTOS 6 available somewhere?  Earlier >> versions had them.

Re: [CentOS] Installing from CD

2011-07-12 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 2:54 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 07/12/11 11:53 AM, Ron Blizzard wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Steve Clark  wrote: >> >>> >  With an HP DL140 we open the cover and temporarily plug in a  standard >>> > atapi >>> >  5.25 DVD drive in place of the CD drive. >

Re: [CentOS] Installing from CD

2011-07-12 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 13:44 -0700, david wrote: > Folks > > The machine I'm trying to load does not have a DVD reader, but only a > CD reader. > > Are the multiple CD images of CENTOS 6 available somewhere? Earlier > versions had them. ubuntu LTS installs from a single CD allows you to

Re: [CentOS] Installing from CD

2011-07-12 Thread John R Pierce
On 07/12/11 11:53 AM, Ron Blizzard wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Steve Clark wrote: > >> > With an HP DL140 we open the cover and temporarily plug in a standard >> > atapi >> > 5.25 DVD drive in place of the CD drive. > If he's talking about a standard Optiplex GX240, it takes a r

Re: [CentOS] Installing from CD

2011-07-12 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Steve Clark wrote: > With an HP DL140 we open the cover and temporarily plug in a  standard atapi > 5.25 DVD drive in place of the CD drive. If he's talking about a standard Optiplex GX240, it takes a regular IDE DVD drive which is almost a throw-away item these

Re: [CentOS] Installing from CD

2011-07-12 Thread Steve Clark
On 07/12/2011 09:59 AM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote: centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: this machine can boot only from a ... HardDrive. USB is not an option. What I did: Move said hard drive to a system that has a DVD, and install there. I had to "tweak a few things" because of how the install pr

Re: [CentOS] Installing from CD

2011-07-12 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: > > this machine can boot only from a ... HardDrive. USB is not an option. What I did: Move said hard drive to a system that has a DVD, and install there. I had to "tweak a few things" because of how the install process worked, and the differences in hardware be

Re: [CentOS] Installing from CD

2011-07-12 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
John R Pierce wrote: > > the logical thing for that would be a yum groupinstall... just need to > have a group defined for this. In fact, there might already be such a > group. > > But there might be several groups and few separate packages, and without at least wiki howto with given yum c

Re: [CentOS] Installing from CD

2011-07-12 Thread John R Pierce
On 07/12/11 1:19 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > david wrote: >> Conclusion: >> I'm still trying >> >> David >> > There will be Minimal Server CD in next several days so you will be able > to install core system via CD and then add GUI and the rest of the > packages via yum. > > Maybe those cr

Re: [CentOS] Installing from CD

2011-07-12 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
david wrote: > Conclusion: >I'm still trying > > David > There will be Minimal Server CD in next several days so you will be able to install core system via CD and then add GUI and the rest of the packages via yum. Maybe those creating Minimal Server CD could create simple script with yum

Re: [CentOS] Installing from CD

2011-07-12 Thread Andy Holt
> On 12/07/2011 06:42, Mogens Kjaer wrote: > On 07/12/2011 01:11 AM, david wrote: > >5) The line-by-line notation during bootstrap is no longer > > shown. This makes it difficult to detect where hangups occur during > > the bootstrap process. Is there a way to display those > > notations in

Re: [CentOS] Installing from CD

2011-07-11 Thread Arun Khan
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 2:14 AM, david wrote: > The machine I'm trying to load does not have a DVD reader, but only a > CD reader. No worries. Use the Net install CD and boot the system. On another system in your LAN, mount the DVD ISO and export it via either http or ftp. I believe NFS/CIF

Re: [CentOS] Installing from CD

2011-07-11 Thread Mogens Kjaer
On 07/12/2011 01:11 AM, david wrote: >5) The line-by-line notation during bootstrap is no longer > shown. This makes it difficult to detect where hangups occur during > the bootstrap process. Is there a way to display those notations in real > time? Yes, edit /boot/grub/grub.conf and remov

Re: [CentOS] Installing from CD

2011-07-11 Thread Keith Roberts
On Tue, 12 Jul 2011, Keith Roberts wrote: **snip** >> Conclusion: >> I'm still trying > > Hi David. I seem to remember doing an http:// install using > the net installer CD. I did it via my LAN from my main > machine to an old laptop that could not read the DVD media. > > Is that an option on t

Re: [CentOS] Installing from CD

2011-07-11 Thread Keith Roberts
On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, david wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list > From: david > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Installing from CD > > Dear Gurus > Thanks for the responses. I'll summarize what I've learned trying to > install Centos6 on a Dell Optiplex GX 240 > > R

Re: [CentOS] Installing from CD

2011-07-11 Thread david
Dear Gurus Thanks for the responses. I'll summarize what I've learned trying to install Centos6 on a Dell Optiplex GX 240 Review: a) I decried the lack of CD images for Centos6. b) I was informed that it's unlikely they'll be produced due to an upstream decision. c) I pointed out that the

Re: [CentOS] Installing from CD

2011-07-11 Thread David Lemcoe
A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > > Behalf Of david > > Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 17:13 > > To: CentOS mailing list > > Subject: Re: [Cent

Re: [CentOS] Installing from CD

2011-07-11 Thread Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf Of david > Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 17:13 > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Installing from CD > > At 02:10 PM 7/11/2011, you wrote: >

Re: [CentOS] Installing from CD

2011-07-11 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 4:13 PM, david wrote: > I wish I could, but this machine can boot only from a CD, a diskette > or a HardDrive.  USB is not an option. > > Am I stuck on Centos 5.x forever, or will the multi-CD images appear > eventually? The CentOS 6 announcement says that a Live CD (whic

Re: [CentOS] Installing from CD

2011-07-11 Thread david
At 02:10 PM 7/11/2011, you wrote: >david wrote: > > Folks > > > > The machine I'm trying to load does not have a DVD reader, but only a > > CD reader. > > > > Are the multiple CD images of CENTOS 6 available somewhere? Earlier > > versions had them. > > > > Thanks > > > > David > > >As far as I kn

Re: [CentOS] Installing from CD

2011-07-11 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
david wrote: > Folks > > The machine I'm trying to load does not have a DVD reader, but only a > CD reader. > > Are the multiple CD images of CENTOS 6 available somewhere? Earlier > versions had them. > > Thanks > > David > As far as I know, this was not planed, at least not yet. For now, a

[CentOS] Installing from CD

2011-07-11 Thread david
Folks The machine I'm trying to load does not have a DVD reader, but only a CD reader. Are the multiple CD images of CENTOS 6 available somewhere? Earlier versions had them. Thanks David ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.cento