Hi. I'm trying to install CentOs 4.3 on a "old" server. Cd's are ok, as i am able to use them in another computers. What happens is that initial text screen shows up (asking if i want to install in text or grpahics mode), but either way all that happens is that i get a cursor blinking on the top left corner for a long period of time. anything i can try? thank you. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20061101/0a8a5744/attachment-0002.html>
> I'm trying to install CentOs 4.3 on a "old" server. Cd's are ok, as i am > able to use them in another computers. > anything i can try?Define 'old'. Is this a piece of hardware where you'd want to use the i586 install option to get things going? Some older boards had buggy acpi issues so booting with noapci or possibly even noapic might help. If you could give us some idea of the hardware we can probably offer better advice. -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell
On Wed, 1 Nov 2006 at 12:16pm, Daniel Teixeira wrote> I'm trying to install CentOs 4.3 on a "old" server. Cd's are ok, as i am > able to use them in another computers. > > What happens is that initial text screen shows up (asking if i want to > install in text or grpahics mode), but either way all that happens is that i > get a cursor blinking on the top left corner for a long period of time. > > anything i can try?Letting us know *a lot more* about your hardware would be a good start... -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
Daniel Teixeira wrote:> Hi. > I'm trying to install CentOs 4.3 on a "old" server. Cd's are ok, as i > am able to use them in another computers. > > What happens is that initial text screen shows up (asking if i want to > install in text or grpahics mode), but either way all that happens is > that i get a cursor blinking on the top left corner for a long period > of time. > > anything i can try?I remeber that RH used to provide alternate boot method on the 2nd CD if you had problems booting. Maybe one of the developers can confirm if this is still true. I think it was in RH 6.x> > thank you. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >
On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 12:16 +0000, Daniel Teixeira wrote:> Hi. > I'm trying to install CentOs 4.3 on a "old" server. Cd's are ok, as i > am able to use them in another computers. > > What happens is that initial text screen shows up (asking if i want to > install in text or grpahics mode), but either way all that happens is > that i get a cursor blinking on the top left corner for a long period > of time. > > anything i can try?What does 'old server' mean for you ? If it's an pentium 1st generation you should go the i586 way. If it's a more recent processor, the normal install should work. What i've already had is that i had to specify the 'nofb' paramater because the vga card didn't support it ...>-- Fabian Arrotin <fabian.arrotin at arrfab.net> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20061101/28a87d3c/attachment-0002.sig>
Sorry, forgot to say it's a pentium Xeon 550Mhz -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Fabian Arrotin Sent: quarta-feira, 1 de Novembro de 2006 14:45 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] unable to start installing On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 12:16 +0000, Daniel Teixeira wrote:> Hi. > I'm trying to install CentOs 4.3 on a "old" server. Cd's are ok, as i > am able to use them in another computers. > > What happens is that initial text screen shows up (asking if i want to > install in text or grpahics mode), but either way all that happens is > that i get a cursor blinking on the top left corner for a long period > of time. > > anything i can try?What does 'old server' mean for you ? If it's an pentium 1st generation you should go the i586 way. If it's a more recent processor, the normal install should work. What i've already had is that i had to specify the 'nofb' paramater because the vga card didn't support it ...>-- Fabian Arrotin <fabian.arrotin at arrfab.net>