Hello listmates,
I've got a few older 32-bit PC's that only have a CD drive (no DVD). So I downloaded all the ISO's and I thought I'd install CentOS 5.5 on this 1.25 GB P-3 (I think, don't remember what CPU it's got right off hand, not that it should matter). So I tried it there, got a fatal exception. OK, no problem - thinking that maybe something was wrong with that machine I decided to try it on a different one, a P-3 with 384 MB or RAM. Same thing happened.
So here's my question: has anybody successfully installed CentOS 5.5 on a 32-bit machine (i386) using individual CD's as their installation media?
Thanks.
Boris.
Boris Epstein wrote:
Hello listmates,
I've got a few older 32-bit PC's that only have a CD drive (no DVD). So I downloaded all the ISO's and I thought I'd install CentOS 5.5 on this 1.25 GB P-3 (I think, don't remember what CPU it's got right off hand, not that it should matter). So I tried it there, got a fatal exception. OK, no problem - thinking that maybe something was wrong with that machine I decided to try it on a different one, a P-3 with 384 MB or RAM. Same thing happened.
So here's my question: has anybody successfully installed CentOS 5.5 on a 32-bit machine (i386) using individual CD's as their installation media?
How much memory on the system? You *might* want to check the BIOS for some weird setting - like the ones I had for OS2 installs....
mark
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 2:25 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Boris Epstein wrote:
Hello listmates,
I've got a few older 32-bit PC's that only have a CD drive (no DVD). So I downloaded all the ISO's and I thought I'd install CentOS 5.5 on this 1.25 GB P-3 (I think, don't remember what CPU it's got right off hand, not that it should matter). So I tried it there, got a fatal exception. OK, no problem - thinking that maybe something was wrong with that machine I decided to try it on a different one, a P-3 with 384 MB or RAM. Same thing happened.
So here's my question: has anybody successfully installed CentOS 5.5 on a 32-bit machine (i386) using individual CD's as their installation media?
How much memory on the system? You *might* want to check the BIOS for some weird setting - like the ones I had for OS2 installs....
mark
Mark,
Thanks for replying. Like I said, there have so far been two systems, one with 384 MB RAM and one with 1.25 GB of RAM. Both get what appears to be the same (or similar) exception.
Boris.
On 07/27/2010 11:18 AM, Boris Epstein wrote:
Hello listmates,
I've got a few older 32-bit PC's that only have a CD drive (no DVD). So I downloaded all the ISO's and I thought I'd install CentOS 5.5 on this 1.25 GB P-3 (I think, don't remember what CPU it's got right off hand, not that it should matter). So I tried it there, got a fatal exception. OK, no problem - thinking that maybe something was wrong with that machine I decided to try it on a different one, a P-3 with 384 MB or RAM. Same thing happened.
So here's my question: has anybody successfully installed CentOS 5.5 on a 32-bit machine (i386) using individual CD's as their installation media?
The closest I have is a P3 with 1 GByte of RAM over HTTP using the 5.4 netinstall CD that I installed several months ago (I keep a local mirror of the CentOS tree). That worked fine for me. My first thought on a machine that old would be either flaky memory or or a flaky CD drive. I would run memtest86+ on them and then try a network install. You can mount the DVD ISO on loopback on a webserver for an install source.
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Benjamin Franz jfranz@freerun.com wrote:
On 07/27/2010 11:18 AM, Boris Epstein wrote:
Hello listmates,
I've got a few older 32-bit PC's that only have a CD drive (no DVD). So I downloaded all the ISO's and I thought I'd install CentOS 5.5 on this 1.25 GB P-3 (I think, don't remember what CPU it's got right off hand, not that it should matter). So I tried it there, got a fatal exception. OK, no problem - thinking that maybe something was wrong with that machine I decided to try it on a different one, a P-3 with 384 MB or RAM. Same thing happened.
So here's my question: has anybody successfully installed CentOS 5.5 on a 32-bit machine (i386) using individual CD's as their installation media?
The closest I have is a P3 with 1 GByte of RAM over HTTP using the 5.4 netinstall CD that I installed several months ago (I keep a local mirror of the CentOS tree). That worked fine for me. My first thought on a machine that old would be either flaky memory or or a flaky CD drive. I would run memtest86+ on them and then try a network install. You can mount the DVD ISO on loopback on a webserver for an install source.
-- Benjamin Franz
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Benjamin,
Thank you, those are excellent suggestions. I will try that, most likely.
By the way - since it sounds like you have the experience - how easy is it to mirror CentOS repositories locally? How much space do I need, roughly?
Thanks.
Boris.
On 07/27/2010 11:57 AM, Boris Epstein wrote:
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Benjamin Franzjfranz@freerun.com wrote:
The closest I have is a P3 with 1 GByte of RAM over HTTP using the 5.4 netinstall CD that I installed several months ago (I keep a local mirror of the CentOS tree). That worked fine for me. My first thought on a machine that old would be either flaky memory or or a flaky CD drive. I would run memtest86+ on them and then try a network install. You can mount the DVD ISO on loopback on a webserver for an install source.
Benjamin,
Thank you, those are excellent suggestions. I will try that, most likely.
By the way - since it sounds like you have the experience - how easy is it to mirror CentOS repositories locally? How much space do I need, roughly?
I exclude the testing, build, apt, ia64, s390, s390x, and alpha sub-trees. The 5.5 tree (minus those) takes about 36 Gbytes. During an update cycle with a new release you can expect about double that between the old and new trees.
It is pretty easy - I just run a nightly rsync against a good public mirror.
From: Boris Epstein borepstein@gmail.com
On 07/27/2010 11:18 AM, Boris Epstein wrote:
I've got a few older 32-bit PC's that only have a CD drive (no DVD). So I downloaded all the ISO's and I thought I'd install CentOS 5.5 on this 1.25 GB P-3 (I think, don't remember what CPU it's got right off hand, not that it should matter). So I tried it there, got a fatal exception. OK, no problem - thinking that maybe something was wrong with that machine I decided to try it on a different one, a P-3 with 384 MB or RAM. Same thing happened. So here's my question: has anybody successfully installed CentOS 5.5 on a 32-bit machine (i386) using individual CD's as their installation media?
By the way - since it sounds like you have the experience - how easy is it to mirror CentOS repositories locally? How much space do I need, roughly?
I mirror it manualy (os from the DVDs and update with a simple rsync), although there is a createrepo package for mirroring repos. My following repo (i386+x86_64) takes 12GB: 5/os/i386/CentOS 5/os/i386/repodata 5/os/i386/images 5/os/i386/images/pxeboot 5/os/i386/images/xen 5/updates/i386 5/updates/i386/RPMS 5/updates/i386/repodata 5/os/x86_64/CentOS 5/os/x86_64/repodata 5/os/x86_64/images 5/os/x86_64/images/pxeboot 5/os/x86_64/images/xen 5/updates/x86_64 5/updates/x86_64/RPMS 5/updates/x86_64/repodata
About your main issue; did you try older releases or different distros to test? Maybe try these kernel options (noapic, acpi=off, etc...)
JD
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 03:39:46AM -0700, John Doe wrote:
From: Boris Epstein borepstein@gmail.com By the way - since it sounds like you have the experience - how easy is it to mirror CentOS repositories locally? How much space do I need, roughly?
I mirror it manualy (os from the DVDs and update with a simple rsync), although there is a createrepo package for mirroring repos.
You don't need a createrepo or anything else like; just a simple rsync.
I also copy the DVD and updates.
For i386: % du -hs /RedHat/DVD/CentOS-5.5 3.9G /RedHat/DVD/CentOS-5.5
% du -hs /RedHat/updates/centos5.5/i386 1.7G /RedHat/updates/centos5.5/i386
For x86_64: % du -hs /RedHat/DVD/CentOS-5.5_x86_64 4.4G /RedHat/DVD/CentOS-5.5_x86_64
% du -hs /RedHat/updates/centos5.5/x86_64 1.9G /RedHat/updates/centos5.5/x86_64
The rsync script is pretty simple; I run it from cron regularly.
#!/bin/sh cd /RedHat/updates/centos5.5 || exit
rsync --delete -rlptDzHq rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5.5/updates/i386 . rsync --delete -rlptDzHq rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5.5/updates/x86_64 .
Then I can set up my yum.repos.d similar to this:
[c5-local] name=CentOS-$releasever - Media baseurl=file:///RedHat/DVD/CentOS-5/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 protect=1 priority=1 enabled=1
[update-local] name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates local baseurl=file:///RedHat/updates/centos$releasever/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 protect=1 priority=1 enabled=1
And, of course, disable the default repositories.
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Stephen Harris lists@spuddy.org wrote:
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 03:39:46AM -0700, John Doe wrote:
From: Boris Epstein borepstein@gmail.com By the way - since it sounds like you have the experience - how easy is it to mirror CentOS repositories locally? How much space do I need, roughly?
I mirror it manualy (os from the DVDs and update with a simple rsync), although there is a createrepo package for mirroring repos.
You don't need a createrepo or anything else like; just a simple rsync.
I also copy the DVD and updates.
For i386: % du -hs /RedHat/DVD/CentOS-5.5 3.9G /RedHat/DVD/CentOS-5.5
% du -hs /RedHat/updates/centos5.5/i386 1.7G /RedHat/updates/centos5.5/i386
For x86_64: % du -hs /RedHat/DVD/CentOS-5.5_x86_64 4.4G /RedHat/DVD/CentOS-5.5_x86_64
% du -hs /RedHat/updates/centos5.5/x86_64 1.9G /RedHat/updates/centos5.5/x86_64
The rsync script is pretty simple; I run it from cron regularly.
#!/bin/sh cd /RedHat/updates/centos5.5 || exit
rsync --delete -rlptDzHq rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5.5/updates/i386 . rsync --delete -rlptDzHq rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5.5/updates/x86_64 .
Then I can set up my yum.repos.d similar to this:
[c5-local] name=CentOS-$releasever - Media baseurl=file:///RedHat/DVD/CentOS-5/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 protect=1 priority=1 enabled=1
[update-local] name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates local baseurl=file:///RedHat/updates/centos$releasever/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 protect=1 priority=1 enabled=1
And, of course, disable the default repositories.
--
rgds Stephen _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Thanks, Stephen, looks like an excellent set of instructions. I may well try that.
Why should I disable the default repositories, though?
Boris.
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 08:52:55AM -0400, Boris Epstein wrote:
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Stephen Harris lists@spuddy.org wrote:
[c5-local] name=CentOS-$releasever - Media baseurl=file:///RedHat/DVD/CentOS-5/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 protect=1 priority=1 enabled=1
[update-local] name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates local baseurl=file:///RedHat/updates/centos$releasever/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 protect=1 priority=1 enabled=1
And, of course, disable the default repositories.
Why should I disable the default repositories, though?
If you don't then you'll have the default internet based repositories _and_ your local mirror both providing packages at the same time, and you'll gain no benefit for having the local mirror.
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Stephen Harris lists@spuddy.org wrote:
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 08:52:55AM -0400, Boris Epstein wrote:
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Stephen Harris lists@spuddy.org wrote:
[c5-local] name=CentOS-$releasever - Media baseurl=file:///RedHat/DVD/CentOS-5/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 protect=1 priority=1 enabled=1
[update-local] name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates local baseurl=file:///RedHat/updates/centos$releasever/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 protect=1 priority=1 enabled=1
And, of course, disable the default repositories.
Why should I disable the default repositories, though?
If you don't then you'll have the default internet based repositories _and_ your local mirror both providing packages at the same time, and you'll gain no benefit for having the local mirror.
--
rgds Stephen _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Oh, right, sure. Sorry, I wasn't thinking.
I thought you were telling me not to use the content of those repositories - and I couldn't figure out why.
Thanks again.
Boris.
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Benjamin Franz jfranz@freerun.com wrote:
On 07/27/2010 11:18 AM, Boris Epstein wrote:
Hello listmates,
I've got a few older 32-bit PC's that only have a CD drive (no DVD). So I downloaded all the ISO's and I thought I'd install CentOS 5.5 on this 1.25 GB P-3 (I think, don't remember what CPU it's got right off hand, not that it should matter). So I tried it there, got a fatal exception. OK, no problem - thinking that maybe something was wrong with that machine I decided to try it on a different one, a P-3 with 384 MB or RAM. Same thing happened.
So here's my question: has anybody successfully installed CentOS 5.5 on a 32-bit machine (i386) using individual CD's as their installation media?
The closest I have is a P3 with 1 GByte of RAM over HTTP using the 5.4 netinstall CD that I installed several months ago (I keep a local mirror of the CentOS tree). That worked fine for me. My first thought on a machine that old would be either flaky memory or or a flaky CD drive. I would run memtest86+ on them and then try a network install. You can mount the DVD ISO on loopback on a webserver for an install source.
-- Benjamin Franz
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Benjamin,
I just used the netinstall to load CentOS 5.5 from a mounted ISO of the DVD and on one of the machines in question it worked like a charm. Thanks once again for an excellent suggestion.
Boris.
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