[CentOS] cobbler installation of CentOS-5.5

Tue Mar 29 07:35:17 UTC 2011
Tony Molloy <tony.molloy at ul.ie>

On Monday 28 March 2011 16:37:33 Timothy Murphy wrote:
> m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> >> 2. The CentOS OS seems to be available in 7 or 8 CDs.
> >> (I tried downloading the DVD ISO with ktorrent,
> >> but this was a complete failure.
> >> It started OK, but then created literally thousands of links
> >> to one file, which brought my server down,
> >> and left it in a state which was quite hard to clean up.)
> > 
> > Dunno. Last time I brought down the DVD iso, I had no trouble just doing
> > a straight d/l, no torrent.
> 
> Where did you find the DVD ISO?
> When I follow the download instructions at <http://www.centos.org/>
> I am only offered "local", ie west european, mirrors,
> and none of those I looked at had the DVD ISO;
> all of them just had 8 CD ISOs.
> 

You could try your local mirror ;-)

  ftp.heanet.ie:/pub/centos/5.5/isos/i386/CentOS-5.5-i386-bin-DVD.iso

or
  ftp.heanet.ie:/pub/centos/5.5/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.5-x86_64-bin-DVD-1of2.iso
and
  ftp.heanet.ie:/pub/centos/5.5/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.5-x86_64-bin-DVD-2of2.iso

Tony



> > Mount the CD isos using loopback (mount -o loop), and copy.
> > <snip>
> 
> I didn't follow this.
> Do you mean mount each of the 8 CDs using loopback?
> And what exactly am I meant to copy?
> 
> I need to indicate where "cobbler import" should look, I assume.
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