Timothy Murphy wrote:
I'm trying to install CentOS-5.5 on my new HP micro-server, which has no CD drive.
I've set up cobbler and cobbler-web on my old server, and can access cobbler-web from my laptop.
I have 3 queries about the installation.
- Is there any advantage is using the 64-bit CentOS
rather than 32-bit?
If it runs 64 bit, you should use 64 bit. Unless you also have half the cylinders on your car disabled, and.... <g>
- The CentOS OS seems to be available in 7 or 8 CDs.
(I tried downloading the DVD ISO with ktorrent, but this was a complete failure. It started OK, but then created literally thousands of links to one file, which brought my server down, and left it in a state which was quite hard to clean up.)
Dunno. Last time I brought down the DVD iso, I had no trouble just doing a straight d/l, no torrent.
<snip cobbler question>
- Is there actually a way of converting the 7 or 8 CD ISOs
into a DVD ISO? I saw instructions that suggested concatenating them, and then running rsync against a DVD ISO, at http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2011-January/104448.html. I tried the site recommended, but could not access the DVD ISO.
Mount the CD isos using loopback (mount -o loop), and copy. <snip> mark