[CentOS] problem installing CentOS 5.3

[Akemi Yagi]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Buz Davis <buzdavis at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 14 Sep 2009  Akemi Yagi wrote
>> You need the i586 kernel for the AMD K6 machines. Bad news is CentOS 5
>> does not support it.  Good news is CentOS 4 supports it.
>>
>> Visit http://i586.centos.org/centos/4/ and you will find what is
>> required to boot your system.  Once booted, type 'linux i586' to start
>> the installation.

> Thanks for the information.  I did visit the link and found what I
> interpreted as a replacement iso for the first disk of 4.  Did I
> misinterpret something ?  I downloaded disks 2 through 4 from the Ga.
> Tech mirror and burned them as well, all apparently without error.
> However, when I attempted to run a media check from "i586 text nousb"
> the first disk passed but the others resulted in "unable to find install
> image on /tmp/cdrom" (or something close to that, I am quoting from
> memory).  I looked at the disks and they appear to be OK, and I burned
> them with the same commands I used for disk 1.  Does this mean I needed
> to gets disks 2 through 4 elsewhere ?  Only disk 1 of the set was on the
> link I visited.

Did you download disks 2 to 4 for CentOS 4.8?  Can you check the hash
values of the iso flles?

Also, if you have a reasonably good connection to the net, you can try
a net install by booting from disk 1.

Akemi