On Mar 11, 2009, at 4:44 PM, Michael Peterson <mpeterson@mail.charlesfurniture.com
wrote:
William L. Maltby wrote:
On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 16:37 -0500, Michael Peterson wrote:
I used google but did not come up with anything current to solve my problem. I have not tried any other search engines yet. There is not a search for the CentOS list so I am creating a new post.
See below - it's really hard to find.
I have tested the CentOS 5.2 and RHEL 5.3 CD's and they passed. I had to use linux mediacheck ide=nodma to get them to pass. The newest releases seem to most times fail with just linux mediacheck.
Try making the media after padding the iso image with about 300k of zeros. When you search the archives (there is a search - I'll mention below) there are a couple of threads about this.
I have tried linux ide=nodma and linux text ide=nodma after trying linux and linux text
Anaconda fails on both CentOS 5.2 and RHEL 5.3 in all cases.
With only 512MB or ram you will have to use text mode only, IIRC. Also in the archives. There's also some threads that mention noacpi, acpi=no and some other stuff I can't recall.
The system I am trying to install on is running CentOS 3.x.
The hardware is P4 2.8 CPU, 512 MB RAM, 120GB 3ware IDE/PATA RAID HD, ATI Video, CDRW CD, Dual Nic, Floppy and IDE/PATA Tape drive.
Please provide any options to the kernel that I should try besides the ones mentioned above that fail.
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For your google searches, go to the advanced section and specify centos.org. That gets what's in the archives. To search directly from CentOS site, click "Search" on http://centos.org/
HTH,
The system I am trying to install on boot with out problems or errors on the 5.2 Live CD. Gui works Firefox and Network work
I tried the options mentioned and more and get the same errors. They are:
Starting graphical installation ... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 900, in ? iutil.makeDriveDeviceNodes() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iutil.py". line 264, in makeDriveDeviceNodes isys.makeDevinode(device, "dev /%s" % (device,)) File "/usr/lib/anaconda.isys.py", line 422, inmakeDevInode _isys.mkdevinode(name,fn) SystemError: (2, 'No such file or directory') install exited abnormally [1/1] sending termination signals ... done
The RHEL 5.3 boot disk is the same as above except the line 900 is 924.
I have tried text and GUI and ide=nodma pci=noacpi with both.
Make sure "Install Mode" is disabled in the BIOS as it will limit memory to 256MB in some machines which will make GUI install bork.
-Ross