On Sun, April 22, 2007 6:58 pm, John Summerfield wrote:
John Summerfield wrote:
I guess that was a useless excersise, cause the Centos 4.4 that loads fine is the same type of DVD. But I'm just shooting blind now. ;->
- Does the boot.iso image boot?
- Does your laptop support pxe?
Either way, with a minimal LAN, you can set up a network install and do use http (maybe off the Internet) or nfs.
Can you boot off USB? I think there's a USB image available too, and that _might_ allow you to install from the DVD.
I don't have anything that is usb to boot off of, except a usb 18 in 1 card reader that I can't get to work with Cento 4.4 which is loaded now. I also tried the slowest burn and nothing still, but the same Centos 5 DVD loads fine on another laptop I have, but not this one. The Centos 4.4 DVD loaded fine and that is what I am on. This lap top is not that old. It's a 2.4Ghz Pent 4 with 1 gig ram from 2003, which is faster than allot sold now. Very strange, I just don't understand it. Just for kicks, I burned a CD and tried to boot up on 1 of 6 Cento 5 on CD, and still, same thing.