[CentOS] CentOS 5.1 x86 medium installation problems

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 07 April 2008 14:19, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > 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?
>
> It was some time ago, and don't recall all details. I thought it was a
> CentOS 5.1-specific issue, but when I had to reinstall and used
> Scientific Linux 5.1 it didn't work either. I will redownload CentOS 5.1
> x86 and will run it under vmware, so as to report the issues in the list.
>
If neither worked, it doesn't sound like a download issue (agreeing with you 
that it verified.)  What exactly 'didn't work'?

Anne