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Thread: USB stick as virtual CD
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06-06-2008, 08:28 AM #1Newbie
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USB stick as virtual CD
Hello,
I have a server, with KVM over IP but without virtual media.
It would be nice if i can install the OS from a usb stick but i have some requirements:
It has to be some sort of net install since i cannot update the USB stick in the future, but it has to install each time the newest OS version.
It also would be very nice if i can choose between different OS’es
for example:
[1] Newest CentOS version
[2] Newest Fedora version
[3] Newest Debian version
Etc, i am still learning, so it would be helpful for me to learn different distributions.
Can someone help me with this?
Thank you.
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06-06-2008, 09:20 AM #2Web Hosting Master
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Is this for sort of a colo box where you are installing the OS remotely? If so you could say get a diskboot.img from a centos mirror and install from that. Once installed you could update the USB stick from the OS
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06-06-2008, 09:32 AM #3Newbie
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It is a dedicated server.
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06-07-2008, 07:19 AM #5Newbie
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I don't know what you mean but this is the situation:
I have a dedicated server and i'm testing different things on it. Sometimes i'm a little bit to fast and than it isn't working any more. The provider has no installation services (only by hand) so i need to request one which can costs money (depends on the date and time). I have KVM over ip, but there is no disc player in de server. They will connect the usb stick if i make one so i can reinstall by myself via KVM over ip.
I hope this is a better explanation?