If you plan to run CentOS 5, why not install it directly? If you want a smaller installation medium, you can download the os/<arch>/images/boot.iso ISO image and do a minimal netinstall. You could also use just the first CentOS 5 CD and do a minimal install (disable all software groups).

Cool, thanks. Just grabbed one of the DVDs from here

http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/5/isos/i386/

and did a minimal install in just a few minutes.

Rogelio wrote:

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If you plan to run CentOS 5, why not install it directly? If you want a smaller installation medium, you can download the os/<arch>/images/boot.iso ISO image and do a minimal netinstall. You could also use just the first CentOS 5 CD and do a minimal install (disable all software groups).

Actually, I just tried this again with the first CentOS 5 CD, and it prompts me for the second one, even though I disabled all of the packages similarly to how I did when I used the DVD version.

You didn't disable everything :D

You need to select "Customize Now" (at the package group selection stage) and disable/uncheck everything to get an install from only CD-1.

However, it is not that difficult to just download CD-1 and CD-2 and do the install the way you did it the first time either.