Hi, I had downloaded CentOS 5.1 x86 DVD image, and although it passed sha1sum or md5sum test and I burned it verifying it, installation failed. Also if I recall correctly, when I tested the medium during install, it failed although as I said the media was verified. ==> The same things happen with Scientific Linux 5.1 x86 installation DVD, so perhaps it is a Red Hat EL 5.1 x86 DVD issue?
Ioannis Vranos
2008-Apr-07 11:40 UTC
[CentOS] Re: CentOS 5.1 x86 medium installation problems
Ioannis Vranos wrote:> Hi, I had downloaded CentOS 5.1 x86 DVD image, and although it passed > sha1sum or md5sum test and I burned it verifying it, installation failed. > > Also if I recall correctly, when I tested the medium during install, it > failed although as I said the media was verified. > > ==> The same things happen with Scientific Linux 5.1 x86 installation > DVD, so perhaps it is a Red Hat EL 5.1 x86 DVD issue?CentOS 5.0 x86 and Scientific Linux 5.0 x86 installation DVD images do not exhibit this problem.
On Monday 07 April 2008 12:38, Ioannis Vranos wrote:> Hi, I had downloaded CentOS 5.1 x86 DVD image, and although it passed > sha1sum or md5sum test and I burned it verifying it, installation failed. > > Also if I recall correctly, when I tested the medium during install, it > failed although as I said the media was verified. > > ==> The same things happen with Scientific Linux 5.1 x86 installation > DVD, so perhaps it is a Red Hat EL 5.1 x86 DVD issue? >I installed from the CentOS 5.1 x86 DVD image without a problem, so maybe it is a post-install problem. What exactly happened that makes you say that it failed? How far did you get, and what was the failure? Anne
On 07/04/2008, Ioannis Vranos <ivranos at freemail.gr> wrote:> > The same things happen with Scientific Linux 5.1 x86 installation > DVD, so perhaps it is a Red Hat EL 5.1 x86 DVD issue?This has to be a hardware specific issue as two distros fail to install. Perhaps if you were to post your hardware specs, someone may spot an obvious problem. Alan. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080407/947323b7/attachment-0001.html>
Alan Bartlett wrote:> On 07/04/2008, *Ioannis Vranos* <ivranos at freemail.gr > <mailto:ivranos at freemail.gr>> wrote: > > The same things happen with Scientific Linux 5.1 x86 installation > DVD, so perhaps it is a Red Hat EL 5.1 x86 DVD issue? > > > This has to be a hardware specific issue as two distros fail to install. > Perhaps if you were to post your hardware specs, someone may spot an > obvious problem.Do you mean use a command or something? By heart, my system is: CPU: Pentium III 1 GHz, FSB 133 MHz, 1 GB RAM. Motherboard: ASUS CUV-4XE with the latest BIOS update. My system passes memtest86+ 1.70 default tests. SL 5.0 x86 and CentOS 5.0 x86 installation DVDs work OK. SL 5.1 x86 and CentOS 5.1 x86 installation DVDs fail to install.
Ioannis Vranos wrote:> Hi, I had downloaded CentOS 5.1 x86 DVD image, and although it passed > sha1sum or md5sum test and I burned it verifying it, installation failed.ok, I have read all your follow up messages in this thread and you have'nt actually mentioned how and when the install failed and with that message. So rather than everyone going round and round in circles trying to work out wtf is going on, why dont you just tell ? exactly how are you doing the install ? what sort of vmware do you have setup ? what kind of machine ? using a script / kickstart ? why are you using a physical media when vmware can directly install from iso. etc. And dont forget to mention how the install fails. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq
William L. Maltby
2008-Apr-07 17:17 UTC
[CentOS] CentOS 5.1 x86 medium installation problems
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 14:38 +0300, Ioannis Vranos wrote:> Hi, I had downloaded CentOS 5.1 x86 DVD image, and although it passed > sha1sum or md5sum test and I burned it verifying it, installation failed. > > Also if I recall correctly, when I tested the medium during install, it > failed although as I said the media was verified. > > ==> The same things happen with Scientific Linux 5.1 x86 installation > DVD, so perhaps it is a Red Hat EL 5.1 x86 DVD issue?Another possibility is a hardware related issue. In another thread in the past, Johnny suggested adding 300K of pad to the ISO image. I use cd-record. I did some testing. I just yesterday found the floppy that contains my notes on the results. I will be posting a [SOLVED] to that thread (I'll find it later) that discusses this. In a nutshell: some drives have trouble reading the tail end of the recording on the media. I tested older ones (sounds like you might have one) and a newer Lite-on. Some worked fine, others failed. Using dd to append 300K of zeros (from /dev/zero) may fix you issue if the problem is this one. Symptoms are erratic because the install continues until it receives notification of the read error, which is deferred by some indeterminate time.> <snip sig stuff>HTH -- Bill