[Ma-linux] CentOS network install

[Jay Hart]

Followup:

Basically, followed the process as shown in the link below.

http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2010/centos-netinstall-network-installation/

Good news is I "have" a working CentOS box, but can't update it.  Let me tell
you what I mean by this.

Towards the bottom of the above tutorial is a step to "Select packages for
Installation", with a screen shot shown.  At this stage of my install I got a
"couldn't get tree" error so no groups shown,  the install app had a "reboot"
option (only I think), so I selected it, figured I'd start over.

Next thing I know the partitions are being formatted and the setup then moves
on to installing packages.  A total of 99 packages are installed, about 272MB
worth iirc.

Reboot box and it comes up to a login prompt.  No errors that I can find have
been reported via the logs.  Ok, looks good so far.

I do not have yum, anaconda, X, installed, and even some basic commands like
'which' are not installed.

I'm pretty sure I can fix this if I can determine some way to start installing
packages,  I believe gzip was installed so maybe I just need to try to get
packages installed using this util and get enough functionality to complete
the install.

OR, I can start from scratch.

Comments???

Jay

> Trying to install CentOS 5.5 via network install method using a CentOS mirror.
>
> Following the basic procedure as shown here:
>
> http://omotech.com/blog/2010/06/09/centos-5-5-netinstall/
>
> I configure the network interface, then go set up the mirror such as this:
>
> website: mirrors.cmich.edu
> directory: centos/5.5/os/i386
>
> This should be all I need to start a network install.
>
> Research via google (yeah, I researched this) all shows this is about what you
> need to do.  Not much more to it.
>
> However, can't seem to find the stage2.img which I guess is what starts the
> install process.  I can ping my box so I think the network interface is
> configured and I put gateway and DNS server info in the config so the box
> should be able to contact the sites.
>
> I've tried three different mirrors with no luck.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Jay
>