On 08/28/2011 09:17 PM Always Learning wrote:
On Sun, 2011-08-28 at 21:06 -0400, ken wrote:
When I downloaded the iso for 6.0 install, K3b said the iso wouldn't fit on the blank DVD.
I remember reading that there are two main DVD formats + and -. One has (more?) error correction than the other and therefore everything may not fit on that type of DVD. Centos 5.6 for X64 requires 2 DVDs.
Okay, that's the problem. Well, it shouldn't be a problem really, but that's why I have it and others don't.
Which version did you download ?
Yeah, it was the i386.
So I downloaded and burned the LiveDVD. When I boot it, I get the blue splash screen (it says "CentOS... Community Enterprise OS on the bottom, logo to the right), but nothing else comes up. Hitting various keys does nothing.
Are you able to do a read integrity test of any of the DVDs ?
The md5sum on the download checked out. I didn't verify the copy of the burned DVD though. I burned the DVD from the CLI with growiso. I couldn't think immediately how to do an md5sum on the DVD, so didn't. I just googled for how to do this. The info I found wasn't helpful.
Downloaded and burned the Netinstall CD. It gives an error message that it can't install because the machine's CPU doesn't have pae.
Recently someone wrote that PAE related to i386 but was not required for x64. What CPU type is your target machine ?
Broadly speaking it's a pentium i686, but without pae. The fact that this machine is excluded from RH/CentOS doesn't bode well for Linux.
So is it the end of CentOS/RH for this machine? (I can't believe that. One of the great things about Linux has always been that it'll run on old hardware.) Or are these fixable problems? Or are there workarounds?
That used to be true but it is inevitable as 'modern' distributions get more capable not all current distributions cater for older spec. equipment. I hear there are other, non-Centos, distributions that do cater for less technically advanced machines.
Well, since I've got two or three other machines I'm either upgrading or installing linux on, machines that are older than this one, I guess I'm done with RH/CentOS.
I'm waiting for Centos 6.1 before I try version 6.
Do you think hardware restrictions will be lessened in 6.1?
Or should I go for a different distribution?
Have you tried Scientific Linux ? It is another Red Hat clone closely(?) related to Centos.
Thanks for the tip. I'll have a look.