I'm trying to install centos 5 on an old machine, a Micron with a pentium III and 250 megs of ram. I'm using the DVD image.

The media check said the DVD was OK.

Everything starts fine (both in graphics and text modes), untl I get to the custom partition table. The new system will go on hda, with the boot and root partition reformatted (see below). I laid it out to preserve the data on /home and another two partitions with a lot of data on each. One of these is mounted as /proj but Anaconda shows it as a giant swap partition.

After I'm done with the formatting and mount points, I say OK, and then nothing happens. I left it run for over an hour, and then bailed out. Before rebooting, I looked at the console messages. There were a couple of warnings but no indications of anything fatal. Just nothing for over an hour.

I'm downloading a new image (actually the CDs) just in case the media's bad.

I also suspect the partition layout may be a problem. It was done long ago on the first hard drive:

/boot 100 megs / 10 gigs /home 10 gigs extended ... /proj 25 gigs /opt 10 gigs swap 500 megs

Once the CDs are in, I'll try again. If it fails, I'll do a new partition table on the first hard drive -- I have everything backed up.

If anyone has a better idea, or if I'm way off base, let me know.

hda -> ST360021A, ATA 60 gig Seagate hdb -> Maxtor 6Y160L0, ATA 150 gig

Thanks,

Barry

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