On Thursday 27 September 2007 20:01:45 Labaki wrote:
Hello!
I just joined this mailing list a couple of minutes ago. I'll start to use CentOS for academic purposes. We'll try to build a cluster based in machines with this OS.
First of all, I'd like to beg you for patience, because I'm comple- tly new in Linux.
My first question is: every tutorial on installation talks about inserting an installation CD, but I'm not sure about what do it means... I've downloaded the four files .iso availabe in CentOS.org, but I don't know what to do with them. Should I burn this files into de CD the way they are? Should I unzip them before this?
Details: I'm using Windows, trying to install CentOS 4 in a 32 bit's PC. I've downloaded CentOS-4.5-i386-bin.......iso.
Thank you for any help!
~ J. Labaki Computational Structural Mechanics Labs Dept. of Computational Mechanics Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Campinas State University/SP - Brazil http://www.fem.unicamp.br/~labaki
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As an almost X windows user may I make some suggestions? The CD ISO files you have down loaded are an exact copy of the CD dumped into one file with a map of the layout of the original disk. Use "Nero" or another windoz burning software and go to the "burn" an ISO file option. This will unpack the ISO file onto the CD into the right folders. After burning if you look at the file with "windows explorer" it should show a root directory with a bunch of files and sub folders. If you have just one file CentOSXXX.iso then you have copied the ISO file which is wrong. Then get a copy of "partition magic and install it in windoz. Run partition magic and shrink your windows partition to give Linux (CentOS) some room, You will probably need a minimum of 25Gb of free space on your hard drive to install CenOS in, for a decent system to play with. Leave this space empty, (no partition in it). Then put CentOS disk 1 in grab a note pad, (to make a note of passwords and other settings) and reboot the windows machine. Make sure you have boot from CD set in your BIOS and then follow the prompts that the CentOS installer gives you. When you get to the part where you are asked where you want to install to (the partitioning bit in the installer) just tell the installer to use the "free space. You will find the Linux world very help full and friendly. If you have any problems come back to the list with it. Give as much info about the problem, what version of CentOS you are using and any error messages you are getting and I'm sure we can help. Not that you will need it but Good Luck!