CentOS - Jan 2008 - Re: install issues

Yep. Just grab the 'netinstall' iso file and burn it. (It's about
7mb)

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From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
Behalf
Of William Warren
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 11:15 AM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Re: install issues

I just realized the old server had a cd rom not dvd..:(

I wonder if i can install directly from one of the mirrors over http?


Scott Silva wrote:
> on 1/24/2008 2:17 PM William Warren spake the following:
>> well it boots onto my athlon64 system.  what's weird is no centos
dvd
>> will install..they all die at that point.  The centos 32 bit CD's
also
>> work fine.  I guess something in this machine does not like centos 
>> dvd's.  Does anyone have any ideas?  I'm starting the centos 64
bit cd
>> set torrent now but if i can find a solution in the next 6 
>> hours(burning and downloading time) i'd be highly appreciative.
>>
>> Wiliam
>>
>> William Warren wrote:
>>> I have a new dell t105(opty 1210's with 4 gigs of ram..sata
hdd's and
>>> sata dvd-rom).  I can bot to the Cent 5 64 bit dvd fine but once it
>>> asks where the install image is i tell it cd-rom..then it rejects
the
>>> dvd spits it out and tells me it's not there.  the same happens
on 32
>>> bit. I have downloaded centos5 twice now, md5 verified..and even 
>>> burned at 1x(that took forever).  Any ideas as to why it refuses to
>>> see a disk that's there, properly burned, and verified?
>>>
>>>
>>
> If you have another server available, you can loop mount the dvd and 
> share it by HTTP. In the images directory is a boot.iso that you can 
> burn to CD and do network installs.
> 
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it's a bit more complex..i had to manually enter the mirror 
information..but that's exceedingly minor..<G.  I ma not installing 
centos 5 64 bit.  i would like to know why no 64 bit cd or dvd will not 
install.

Damien Solodow wrote:
> Yep. Just grab the 'netinstall' iso file and burn it. (It's
about 7mb)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
Behalf
> Of William Warren
> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 11:15 AM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Re: install issues
> 
> I just realized the old server had a cd rom not dvd..:(
> 
> I wonder if i can install directly from one of the mirrors over http?
> 
> 
> Scott Silva wrote:
>> on 1/24/2008 2:17 PM William Warren spake the following:
>>> well it boots onto my athlon64 system.  what's weird is no
centos dvd
>>> will install..they all die at that point.  The centos 32 bit
CD's also
>>> work fine.  I guess something in this machine does not like centos 
>>> dvd's.  Does anyone have any ideas?  I'm starting the
centos 64 bit cd
>>> set torrent now but if i can find a solution in the next 6 
>>> hours(burning and downloading time) i'd be highly appreciative.
>>>
>>> Wiliam
>>>
>>> William Warren wrote:
>>>> I have a new dell t105(opty 1210's with 4 gigs of ram..sata
hdd's and
>>>> sata dvd-rom).  I can bot to the Cent 5 64 bit dvd fine but
once it
>>>> asks where the install image is i tell it cd-rom..then it
rejects the
>>>> dvd spits it out and tells me it's not there.  the same
happens on 32
>>>> bit. I have downloaded centos5 twice now, md5 verified..and
even
>>>> burned at 1x(that took forever).  Any ideas as to why it
refuses to
>>>> see a disk that's there, properly burned, and verified?
>>>>
>>>>
>> If you have another server available, you can loop mount the dvd and 
>> share it by HTTP. In the images directory is a boot.iso that you can 
>> burn to CD and do network installs.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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