On 07/27/2010 11:57 AM, Boris Epstein wrote:
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Benjamin Franzjfranz@freerun.com wrote:
The closest I have is a P3 with 1 GByte of RAM over HTTP using the 5.4 netinstall CD that I installed several months ago (I keep a local mirror of the CentOS tree). That worked fine for me. My first thought on a machine that old would be either flaky memory or or a flaky CD drive. I would run memtest86+ on them and then try a network install. You can mount the DVD ISO on loopback on a webserver for an install source.
Benjamin,
Thank you, those are excellent suggestions. I will try that, most likely.
By the way - since it sounds like you have the experience - how easy is it to mirror CentOS repositories locally? How much space do I need, roughly?
I exclude the testing, build, apt, ia64, s390, s390x, and alpha sub-trees. The 5.5 tree (minus those) takes about 36 Gbytes. During an update cycle with a new release you can expect about double that between the old and new trees.
It is pretty easy - I just run a nightly rsync against a good public mirror.