Michael Peterson wrote: ...
I burned the CD images on Windows using Roxio and an AOpen DVD Read/ CDRW drive.
The burned CD's test fine in more than one system. I do have to test them with ide=nodma to get them to pass.
The CD Drive and IDE Cable on the system I am trying to install is 5 years old.
I searched the CentOS site and mailing list for similar issues and found one dating back to last year. The anaconda errors were similar.
I finally got 5.2 to install and the fix was to tell the kernel to ignore the ide tape device. The tape drive is on hdd and the following allowed me to do a GUI install with 512 MB.
linux ide=nodma hdd=none
I thought I would post my result so that this request for help could be closed.
Thanks for having this list to provide the avenue to a solution.
Thanks for posting the solution for posterity to close it out. BTW - I think it is a convention to add "SOLVED" in the subject to indicate closure.
Phil