On Thu, 2018-04-19 at 18:59 -0400, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
On 19 April 2018 at 05:04, Always Learning centos@u68.u22.net wrote:
Comfort-ability is not my criteria. The BIOS is supposed to be 4 or 5 years old. It won't boot from DVDs, yet it will boot from zip disks and other historic relics (LH120, I think one of the other choices was).
I was shocked when it would not install from a DVD.
As with others.. this sounds 15 years old. If it says it is 4 or 5 years old.. I would be more leery of the hardware than torrents.
Can't explain the "relic" new BIOS received in February 2013.
Get a cdrom with CD1 data as this installs 99% of my systems I have dealt with. [I think out of a couple hundred, that 2 or 3 needed anything from the second disk when installing some obscure thing.] The second disk is mostly stuff you can install later. If you need more than that, you need to mirror the distribution locally and set up a pxe/tftpboot system which points to that mirror.
Thank you. I like your idea of doing a DD from DVD1 to a USB stick and installing from the USB.
Have a nice day.