| action | Stickittotheman willingly identifies himself as a windows noob who wishes to switch to centos |
| Stickittotheman | willingly identifies himself as a windows noob who wishes to switch to centos is there a way to install centos 5 without a DVD, and without using up 5 cds? |
| mmcgrath | Stickittotheman: network install |
| Stickittotheman | im not finding anything on the wiki about how to do that where would i start? |
| mmcgrath | Stickittotheman: do you have a way to boot the box via a cd or dvd? |
| Stickittotheman | yes just not a DVD i have a 10gig partition i could use for now too |
| mmcgrath | K, then all you need to do is append a "method=http://path/to/your/centOS/install/os" to the boot prompt |
| Stickittotheman | sorry, take two steps back what am i booting off of? |
| mmcgrath | put the cd in your drive. turn off your computer, then turn it back on. your computer will boot off of the CD. It will come to a boot: prompt. There will be a list of help items there (I think) you can hit f1-f5 to view them. It will give you a good idea of what can be done from that cd. |
| Stickittotheman | ok i got that |
| mmcgrath | there's a multitude of documentation on this section on the internet, but "method=" is what you're looking to do. |
| Stickittotheman | im assuming thats just the first cd from the set of five? |
| jdillon | Stickittotheman: aye |
| mmcgrath | yep, there's even a smaller boot.iso that you could use IIRC |
| jdillon | 6 actually I mean there are 6 discs |
| Stickittotheman | :P im an OS switching freak, and im burning through cds pretty quick here thanks |
| action | jdillon wonders why there isn't a live cd for 5 yet |
| jdillon | wonders why there isn't a live cd for 5 yet |
| Stickittotheman | before i reboot, im assuming the path to the install is just a URL where you download the .iso? |
| mmcgrath | Its the path you downloaded the iso ending with /os/ |
| Stickittotheman | cool |
| mmcgrath | delete everything after the /os/ I mean. |
| jdillon | hrm... is that correct? some of these have arch dirs under them ie. http://centos.mirror.nac.net/5.0/os/i386/ |
| mmcgrath | leave the arch |
| action | mmcgrath is used to booting fedora this way - http://redhat.download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os/ |
| mmcgrath | is used to booting fedora this way - http://redhat.download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os/ |
| jdillon | IIRC the first boot menu should also have screens to guide for network install though its been years since I needed to use them Stickittotheman: good luck :-) |