Hi all, Let me start off with a little back ground. I am running right now RH9 fully updated on a Dell PowerEdge 1600SC with 512megs of Ram, 18G SCSI HD. I run this at home so this is no critical server, unless you ask my girls when I have it down, I have been debating on upgrading to Fedora until I started looking at CentOS. I have download the ISO and burned them with X-CD-Roast. Here is my question: I tried running the mediacheck on the cd's and it would lock up right before the media check screen appears. I have googled and tried the ide=nodma and other options, but to still no avial. I also ran memtest86, now here is where the kicker is. It did show there was some errors, and these I will check out. But I then got a wild idea and pulled out my 1st CD of RH9, dropped it into the CD drive and at the boot prompt ran media check. RH9 disk 1 checked out fine, so I dropped in the CentOS disk 1 and ran it. It checked out fine and so did all the rest of them. Is this a vaild test?? Or am I just blowing in the wind here?? Thanks for any input into this matter!! Lee Perez Still learning!!!
centos-bounces at centos.org <> scribbled on Monday, September 12, 2005 6:53 PM:> Hi all, > > Let me start off with a little back ground. I am running > right now RH9 fully updated on a Dell PowerEdge 1600SC with > 512megs of Ram, 18G SCSI HD. I run this at home so this is > no critical server, unless you ask my girls when I have it > down, I have been debating on upgrading to Fedora until I > started looking at CentOS. I have download the ISO and burned > them with X-CD-Roast. Here is my question: > > I tried running the mediacheck on the cd's and it would lock > up right before the media check screen appears. I have > googled and tried the ide=nodma and other options, but to > still no avial. I also ran memtest86, now here is where the > kicker is. It did show there was some errors, and these I > will check out. But I then got a wild idea and pulled out my > 1st CD of RH9, dropped it into the CD drive and at the boot > prompt ran media check. RH9 disk 1 checked out fine, so I > dropped in the CentOS disk 1 and ran it. It checked out fine > and so did all the rest of them. Is this a vaild test?? Or > am I just blowing in the wind here?? Thanks for any input > into this matter!! > > > Lee Perez > Still learning!!!I've never trusted the media check. I ran it once a few years ago on some CD's I burned and they failed the test, yet the install went in without incident. I'd just burn and turn :) Mike
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 18:53 -0500, cajun wrote:> I am running right now RH9 fully updated on a Dell PowerEdge 1600SC > with 512megs of Ram, 18G SCSI HD ... RH9 disk 1 checked out fine, so I > dropped in the CentOS disk 1 and ran it. It checked out fine and so > did all the rest of them. Is this a vaild test?? Or am I just blowing > in the wind here?? Thanks for any input into this matter!!Any reason you want to install CentOS when you have a running RHL9 system? BTW, although I've had no major issues updating RHL to FC releases, as FC is the logical upgrade path, RHEL/CentOS is not designed to be an upgrade option for RHL. -- Bryan J. Smith b.j.smith at ieee.org http://thebs413.blogspot.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The best things in life are NOT free - which is why life is easiest if you save all the bills until you can share them with the perfect woman