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.
1. Is there any advantage is using the 64-bit CentOS rather than 32-bit?
2. 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.)
But how exactly do I "cobbler import" these? I see that for Fedora on my laptop I ran sudo cobbler import --path=/mnt/dvd --name=F14-i386
3. 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.
In fact, if I could access a DVD ISO, couldn't I download it directly? So what would be the point of this exercise?