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Installing Redhat 6 Server without a dvd drive

Horlock
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Anyone got any suggestions on how to do this.
I currently have a HP Server DL580, with a cd rom drive
I don't have an an external drive.
I have fedora core 14 installed on it (although so far have failed to get the internet to work on the server - but that is a separate issue and probably not worth fixing if I am going to change OS)
I have downloaded the dvd, copied the iso to fedora - using a USB pen
Mounted the dvd within fedora - but it seems it needs to run on boot
Anyone have any suggestions - ideally where I can get Redhat 6 enterprise server on cd. But it there is a simple work around I'd be greatful too.
Thanks
I currently have a HP Server DL580, with a cd rom drive
I don't have an an external drive.
I have fedora core 14 installed on it (although so far have failed to get the internet to work on the server - but that is a separate issue and probably not worth fixing if I am going to change OS)
I have downloaded the dvd, copied the iso to fedora - using a USB pen
Mounted the dvd within fedora - but it seems it needs to run on boot
Anyone have any suggestions - ideally where I can get Redhat 6 enterprise server on cd. But it there is a simple work around I'd be greatful too.
Thanks
There is no intelligent life out there ... ask any goldfish!
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The sarcastic answer would be "Buy it from Redhat: http://www.redhat.com/rhel/purchasing_guide.html" ....
With regards to no drive and unable to boot natively from a USB 'stick', the options that jump out to me would be do a network install (that would probably still require something running on the server to allow it) or - my personal choice... connect a DVD drive to the server as a temporary measure, and install as normal.
Perhaps I'm missing something?0 -
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The sarcastic answer would be "Buy it from Redhat: http://www.redhat.com/rhel/purchasing_guide.html" ....
Perhaps I'm missing something?
Sadly Redhat 6 it isn't available to buy yet - it is still at beta 2 testing stage.
Sadly the dvd option wont work either because the server wont take ide drives and I don't have a scsi dvd rom.There is no intelligent life out there ... ask any goldfish!0 -
Sadly Redhat 6 it isn't available to buy yet - it is still at beta 2 testing stage.Sadly the dvd option wont work either because the server wont take ide drives and I don't have a scsi dvd rom.0
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gaming_guy wrote: »you could use something like a virtualbox VM (running debian/fedora/RHEL) to set up the PXE server for network booting on another computer.gaming_guy wrote: »Yep, there is that way of doing it, but you could also do it by using unetbootin to put the RHEL installer onto a flash drive and install it that way. The flash drive method will only work if the server's bios supports it though.
Thanks by the way.
JamesThere is no intelligent life out there ... ask any goldfish!0 -
That's what I thought, so why request it?Then either pick up a SCSI rom drive or pop in an IDE/SATA board into a PCI slot - surely with the lid off it has one of those, no? If not, out of curiosity, what motherboard does this server have in it?There is no intelligent life out there ... ask any goldfish!0
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Have you asked Red Hat if they could make a special set of CD ISO's available for you free, or lend you a SCSI DVD Rom drive?There are plenty of pci slots - although I don't have either of the suggested hardware.
The UNetbootin is an option, but you appear to have indicated in your initial post that there is an issue booting from a USB drive.
You may find asking at: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/gets you a better suggestion for your situation.0 -
Have just tried the UNetbootin option. Sadly no joy. The server will indeed not boot from the usb. (I checked and my PC was quite happy to install it - so I know UNetbootin worked successfully.
I may try linuxquestions - or may resort to an different linux distribution like centos5.5There is no intelligent life out there ... ask any goldfish!0 -
Can you boot from another (CD-based) distribution and then run the ISO image?0
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http://www.stanford.edu/~alfw/PXE-Kickstart/PXE-Kickstart.html
Network boot and install of redhat.
It's a bit of an old article, but it seems sound enough (I'm not a redhat person).
Alternatively, download CentOS and burn to cd?0
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