Boot centos ISO (Ubuntu)

JohnB

Hello,

I have a server at my home that has Ubuntu desktop, i would like to install centos. I have the centos mounted and i just cant find any installers, i have tried burning and booting from USB/Disk but still can't boot centos to install, ideas?

Thanks

Abdussamad

What do you mean you have it mounted?

jh

You need to boot from it

JohnB

@Abdussamad said:
What do you mean you have it mounted?

I done:

mkdir /media/iso

mount -o loop centos-minimal.iso /media/iso

And in ubuntu it shows the ISO Mounted, but when you click it, it shows you the sub folders and files, i have clicked nearly every file, no installer.

Thanks @Abdussamad and @jhadley

matthewvz

You could use unetbootin

Abdussamad

You don't mount it. You burn the image on to a DVD and boot from that. Choose the option to burn an image in your burner program. Also when you boot you will likely have to repartition your hard drive to make room for centos. So be sure to backup everything in case something goes wrong.

Microlinux

You can make a bootable USB stick with http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

rchurch

This is sounding ridiculous. Are you able to set your BIOS to boot from the hard disk, or press the F12 key to select which device to boot from?

Mitsuhashi

When you burn the image, make sure it burns into a bootable disk and not just a regular old data disk.

JohnB

unetboot plus booting from disk does not work.