[CentOS] Re: install issues

William Warren hescominsoon at emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com
Fri Jan 25 16:37:09 UTC 2008


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
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> 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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