CentOS install

Matt Lawrence matt.lawrence at tamu.edu
Sat Jun 20 00:42:08 CDT 2009


Ben Scott wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Mark Dundore
> <markdundore at westernintl.com> wrote:
>   
>> The server I am trying to install to only has a CD-R.  I am assuming I
>> can't use the DVD to do the install ...
>>     
>
>   Not with a CD-R drive.  You could replace the CD-R with a
> CD-R/DVD-ROM drive.  It's not like they're expensive these days.
>
>   Alternatively, CentOS offers CD images.  I've used them many times.
> They work fine.  You just have to shuffle discs during the install.
>   

Do a minimal install and you only need the first CD.  A very handy 
improvement that the CentOS folks made over the Red Hat distribution.

-- Matt



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