{"id":1021,"date":"2013-12-15T12:59:25","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T12:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/?p=1021"},"modified":"2013-12-16T00:13:47","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T00:13:47","slug":"trouble-installing-centos-from-usb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/?p=1021","title":{"rendered":"Trouble installing CENTOS from USB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve spent a couple hours trying to install Centos from USB on a system that has no CD\/DVDROM.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/syedaali.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/04\/installing-centos-6-4-using-usb\/\">This blog and the comments<\/a> are informative, but I keep getting stuck where it asks to install from Hard Drive.  I see only the one partition and when using Ctrl+Alt+F2 to try to get the shell to switch them, i see a blinking cursor but cannot type.   i can hit Ctrl+Alt+F1 to go back to the blue install screen or Ctrl+Alt+F3 to see some log info telling me that the iso was not found.  I can type on that screen, to no avail.<br \/>\nI tried both <a href=\"http:\/\/iso2usb.sourceforge.net\/\">iso2usb <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/unetbootin.sourceforge.net\/\">unetbootin<\/a> but must be doing something wrong.<br \/>\nThink I&#8217;m going to see if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntu.com\/download\/help\/create-a-usb-stick-on-windows\">Ubuntu from USB<\/a> goes any easier instead.  Update, yes that worked much easier.<br \/>\nSo after installing Ubuntu server, the system boots to a black screen with a blinking cursor.  I realized grub got installed onto the USB stick instead of the HD.  Put the USB stick back in and booted from it, then did <code>grub-install \/dev\/sda<\/code> to <a href=\"https:\/\/help.ubuntu.com\/community\/Grub2\/Installing\">install grub on the HD<\/a>, then all is well, the system boots without the USB stick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve spent a couple hours trying to install Centos from USB on a system that has no CD\/DVDROM. This blog and the comments are informative, but I keep getting stuck where it asks to install from Hard Drive. I see &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/?p=1021\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions\/1039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}