On Monday 28 March 2011 16:37:33 Timothy Murphy wrote:

> m.roth@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.