m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
I suppose there could be something relevant on the 2nd DVD, although the first has been sufficient to install in 3 other ways:
- via HTTP from another machine on my home LAN;
- after copying the DVD-1of2 to a USB stick; and
- it was also sufficient on a machine with a DVD drive.
(The machine I was trying the hard disk install on- an HP MicroServer - has no DVD drive.)
You could put everything on an 8G USB key.
As I mentioned, I had already installed CentOS on a USB key, using just the first DVD. I was really just experimenting with a hard disk installation.
Now I have to work out how to install Windows on the machine, but I daren't ask about that here ... I need it because my ISP claims to have tripled the speed of my supply, but says I have to run a Windows CD to setup the modem he has given me.
?? What kind of modem? Linux handles almost everything. Certainly, I didn't need to install WinDoze to work with the DSL modem I got from Verizon.
The modem is a ZyXEL P-660HW-T1 WiFi modem/router (made in China). It works fine, but my speed is not 3 times what it was before! My ISP (Eircom) claims I have to run the configuration utility on the Windows CD to get "up to speed". I doubt if this is true, but I guess I ought to try it.