[CentOS] 6.0 Media problems

[ken]

On 08/30/2011 10:10 AM Karanbir Singh wrote:
> hi Ken,
> 
> On 08/30/2011 03:04 PM, ken wrote:
>> <http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=15>  would be one
>> place.  But, given the way search engines might index pages, people
>> could bypass that page and land directly on the mirrors page,
>> <http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=13>, and so miss
>> the warning altogether.
> 
> How about a Readme file ( please propose something ) that would go into 
> the ISOS directory on all machines ? eg: 
> http://centos.mirror.netelligent.ca/centos/6/isos/x86_64/
> 
> that might be a good place to have a url pointing at the release notes, 
> perhaps a few workds on what the sha sums are and how people can verify 
> them, and the various media formats ( livecd, dvd, cd, netinstall, 
> torrents ).
> 
> If you want to put something together, we could add that in right away. 
> And I'll add a note to the release process to make sure its updated, 
> maintained into the future releases.
> 
>> In addition, if it happens, per your other email in this thread, that
>> it's possible to offer another CentOS distribution which doesn't require
>> PAE, then we'd need a distinguishing name for those ISOs.
> 
> right, that would be a bit of a journey down the road. Step 1 would be 
> to find a solution to the PAE-needed issue, then make sure there is some 
> mechanism in place ( manual or otherwise ) to carry that work forward 
> into the updates, finally come up with a delivery ( install ) mechanism. 
> It should just be a case of an alternative installer with the 
> works-with-pae-absent kernel.
> 
> - KB

Hi, KB,

Congratulations.  You parsed out my mixed up email.  I somehow replied
to one issue in the wrong email.  I shouldn't reply to email while
listening to news about hurricanes and floods and before I'm well into
my second cup of coffee.

As for the readme... or PRE-DOWNLOAD-README...

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To burn this ISO to DVD, you need to use a DVD-RW drive and compatible
media.  Due to a difference in formatting, this ISO will not fit on a
DVD+ disk.

In addition, CentOS 6.0 requires a PAE-capable CPU.  This distribution
will not run otherwise.  On Linux do "cat /proc/cpuinfo|grep ^flags" to
see if "pae" is mentioned there.  If not, use a different distribution.

See the CentOS wiki for more information.  <URL>
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